American Music in the NEWS

• American composer John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles was a huge success when it opened at the Metropolitan Opera.
  
• The life story of model and actress Anna Nicole Smith has been turned into an opera and tickets to the premiere were sold out before it opened!
  
• Composer John Adams terms the current federal budget for the arts "laughably small."
  
• To keep current with the times, how about these operas? Gaddafi: A Living Myth and Winnie: The Opera
  
• John Cage's Organ2/ASLSP began with a rest of 17 months. The performance will end 2640.