We met at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Since then, he’s become self’s partner in crime, the one who hopes to set one of self’s stories to music, someday. Can’cha just see it?
MARIFE: An Opera
Libretto by Marianne V________
Music composed by Drew Hemenger
On now, at the Metropolitan Opera House
Reservations HIGHLY recommended
What impresses self about Drew is his incredible output. This despite holding down a full-time (administrative) job. One of his pieces was performed at Symphony Space for the 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Commemmoration.
So, here’s what’s up with Drew for the month of February. The first event is in New York, the second is in University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee:
- Saturday, Feb. 4, 8 p.m.
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
“Four Places in New York,” a piece for four-hand piano (part of Mark Peloquin’s Keyed Up Music Project)
Tickets: $20, reservations recommended
- Saturday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Soprano Adrienne Danrich will enchant audiences with “An Evening in the Harlem Renaissance,” which includes Drew’s jazz-influenced songs inspired by the iconic Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes
