Bøger af Joshua McGuire

The Piano Vocal Score of the American Grand Opera. Hailed as "American opera on display and at its finest..." (National Opera Association), ROSCOE (music by Evan Mack, libretto by Joshua McGuire) is an opera of larger-than-life dramatic and musical scale. Roscoe Conway, after many years at the helm of Albany, New York's notorious political machine, resolves to call it a day and quit politics. But a mysterious suicide message from his best friend throws him headlong back into a world of gangsters, whorehouses, cockfights, courtrooms, ghosts, and bygone loves. Based on the novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy, ROSCOE is an American grand opera for the ages.

Piano-Vocal Score and Libretto for the Children's Opera "Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena." This Christmas opera is a coming of age story based on the Mexican folktale of the poinsettia. The 45-minute opera is for SMTB and piano and is in English and Spanish.

Piano-Vocal Score of the One-Act Opera: Based on true events, The Ghosts of Gatsby is a psychological journey into the marriage of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Music soaked in the spirits of the Jazz Age, competing narratives of Zelda and Scott's past, and a dollop of dark humor all collide in a Black Mirror-like plot twist. The Ghosts of Gatsby is an operatic tribute to the demands of madness, art, and love.

What is this fleeting experience that sometimes hits us when we listen to music? Through several short essays adapted from lectures given at Vanderbilt University between 2008 and 2012, author Joshua McGuire answers this question while exploring what it takes to become better listeners of music. McGuire's premise is that listening to music in a fuller way shows us a fuller way to live, clarifying the way we listen to everything. Ironically, better listening involves a recognition of the absence of time experienced amidst profound silence. After all, the purpose of music is to bring us to silence. "As we listen, we become the silence in which music happens. We disappear."