Charles Wuorinen and James Fenton

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Composer Charles Wuorinen and librettist James Fenton on re-imagining Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories as a children’s opera.

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Music: The Haroun Songbook, music by Charles Wuorinen: "Zembla, Zenda, Zanadu" / "We Are Two Men"

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