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Discovering the Music of Mark Abel

Below is an excerpt from Delos Director Carol Rosenberger‘s new memoir, To Play Again, about when she first came across the music of Mark Abel:

Carol Rosenberger, Janelle DeStefano, Mark Abel

Carol Rosenberger and mezzo-soprano Janelle DeStefano with composer Mark Abel during the recording sessions for Time And Distance

As I continue as caretaker of Delos, there are always exciting developments on the horizon—some carefully planned and others completely unexpected. And I always wish I could share them with Amelia and John. One such delightful surprise project was American composer Mark Abel’s The Dream Gallery.

I had settled down one afternoon to listen to a stack of demo CDs, which usually means listening to about ten minutes of each demo and then putting it into one of two piles: “To Be Explored” or “Not Right for Delos.” When I got to The Dream Gallery, however, time stopped. The song cycle for seven different vocal soloists and orchestra drew me into its drama for its full seventy minutes. All I could do was marvel at the musical and dramatic ingenuity that made me eager to know more about each of the seven California characters I was meeting during the cycle. I laughed in some places and wept at the end, when the last character sings of picturing “the setting sun over the Pacific’s horizon … it will inspire eternally.” I kept thinking how much Amelia and John would have loved it. And now (at the time of this writing) we are working on another of Mark Abel’s unique creations: a poignant new opera Home Is a Harbor, about a California family and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Amelia and John would have loved this one, too.

Read More in Carol Rosenberger’s new memoir, To Play Again

Mark Abel’s Delos Discography

Mark Abel: Spectrum

Approaching Autumn

The Cave of Wondrous Voice: Chamber Music and Songs of Mark Abel

Mark Abel: Time and Distance

Mark Abel: Home is a Harbor

Mark Abel: The Dream Gallery - Seven California Portraits

Posted by Carol Rosenberger on
 March 21, 2018
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