Wine and War Video Series
This series of videos explore the creation of a new folk music opera, Wine and War, by composer Glenn McClure that shares the dramatic Civil War era veteran story of NY state’s commercial winery.
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How Are We Going to Produce a Major Opera in the Adirondacks?
“The rural community of the North Country plays a major role in the third of our “Spotlight” series of stories detailing the formation of “Promised Land: an Adirondack Folk Opera.”
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St. Bonaventure Lenna Visiting Professor
Glenn McClure will present classroom lectures and public presentations during his Spring residency at St. Bonaventure and at Jamestown Community College. A detailed schedule will be available in February. The Lenna Endowed Visiting Professorship, established in 1990, is funded through gifts from the late Betty S. Lenna Fairbank and Reginald A. Lenna of Jamestown. It…
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Glenn Exploring the Adirondack Folk Opera at Mountain Lake PBS
This series of Spotlight video stories and exclusive interview clips from Mountain Lake PBS invites you behind-the-scenes and on the stage of the Adirondack Folk Opera, as a work in progress aims to become a full scale opera. About the Adirondack Folk Opera In the 1850s, abolitionist Gerrit Smith (with John Brown, Frederick Douglass and others) gave…
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Courageous Characters Sing About Voting Rights In An Adirondack Opera
Mountain Lake PBS will present the second in a series of TV stories about the creation of Promised Land: an Adirondack Folk Opera, on Friday, January 18 at 8pm, on the program Mountain Lake Journal.
