Composer and librettist in one, Dan Welcher recently wrote both the words and music for an operatic setting of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman story, The Yellow Wallpaper. Best known as a composer, but also an accomplished poet, Welcher has been on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin for more than 30 years. He has almost 100 works to his credit in nearly all musical mediums that include opera, concerto, symphony, wind ensemble, vocal literature, piano solos, and various kinds of chamber music. He has won awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundations, the MacDowell Colony, and numerous others. (See Dec. 17, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013 for information on the National Library of Medicine’s traveling exhibit on The Yellow Wallpaper at Bailey Library.)
Sponsor: Hendrix-Murphy Foundation (501) 450-4597 or vanaman@hendrix.edu.
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