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3 unusual facts about Daron Hagen


Carl Fischer Music

It was also during the 1980s and 1990s that Carl Fischer Music began to publish the works of fast-rising composers such as Henry Brant, Michael Colgrass, Sebastian Currier, Jason Eckardt, Daron Hagen, Lee Hyla, Martin Bresnick, David Carlson, Paul Lansky, Daniel S. Godfrey, Samuel Jones, and David Maslanka.

Sarasota Opera

For the most part, the Fall operas have been popular favourites, but in 2012, it will present Daron Hagen's world premiere opera, Little Nemo in Slumberland.

Sarasota Opera presented Little Nemo in Slumberland, an opera with music by Daron Hagen and words by J.D. McClatchy, in November 2012.


Wisconsin Death Trip

The book inspired a number of musical works, including the opera Black River by Conrad Susa, which was composed in 1975 and revised 1981; the "dramatic cantata" Songs of Madness and Sorrow by Daron Hagen, composed in 1996, a song by the Bethel, Maine-based thrash metal band Theory of Negativity on their 1994 self-titled album; and the 1999 album Wisconsin Death Trip by the band Static-X.


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