Dan Sonenberg
is the composer of The Summer King: The Josh Gibson Story, the chamber opera Girl in Six Beats, and numerous other works of chamber, larger ensemble, and vocal music, as well as several
albums of original rock music. He lives in Portland, Maine, and is Professor of Music at the University of Southern Maine. The Summer King was produced by Pittsburgh Opera in 2017, and Michigan Opera Theatre in 2018.
"The Summer King is a compelling theatrical experience and a serious, thought-provoking addition to the repertory....The score is quite strong. Sonenberg’s eclectic aural landscape
incorporates jazz, ragtime, swing, even extending to mariachi in a scene where Gibson goes to Mexico to play for the Veracruz Azules. Sonenberg’s vocal writing is demanding—
he favors extremes of the range—but almost always idiomatic and gratifying."
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