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Collaborations
Host: Gerald Busby

A program featuring artists of all kinds—playwrights, poets, novelists, film makers, choreographers, set designers, costume designers, and more. Each show will feature one guest artist with whom I've worked, and we'll talk about how we met, how we worked together, and what we produced. We'll play the music that our collaboration created and describe its premiere and the audience's response.

Today's Show

Guest: Charles Fussel, Composer

Tuesday Premiere 11 am
Wednesday Encore 12 am
Thursday Encore 11 am
Podcast on demand

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Gerald Busby is best known for his film score for Robert Altman’s
3 Women, which received international critical acclaim and was issued as a DVD in the Criterion Collection of classic films. His dance score for Paul Taylor’s Runes has had hundreds of performances since its premier in Paris and was featured on the PBS Great Performances series, Dance in America. It is now available on the Nonesuch label. With playwright Craig Lucas, Busby wrote the opera Orpheus in Love, which premiered in New York at the Circle Repertory Company.

Busby’s theatrical chamber music concerts at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall garnered critical praise for their originality. A film, Sleepsong, featuring three of these chamber music scenarios, premiered by invitation at the Berlin Filmfest. The Texas Opera Theater commissioned Busby and Lucas to write two one-aria operas.

Busby has written more than one hundred thirty concert works, and his music has been performed and recorded on the EMI and INNOVA labels by such distinguished artists as Thomas Hampson, Craig Rutenberg, Michael Parloff, Kenneth Cooper, Jerry Grossman, William Purvis, Donald Palma, Calvin Hampton. Busby has received numerous awards, commissions, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Virgil Thomson Foundation, the Aaron Copland Foundation, Bellagio, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.

Gerald Busby, lives and composes at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.