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3 unusual facts about Stanley Hollingsworth


Stanley Hollingsworth

"La Grande Bretèche" (1954), a one-act opera with libretto by the composer and Harry Duncan, after Honoré de Balzac

A notable success was achieved with his opera "La Grande Breteche" when it was commissioned for broadcast by the NBC Opera Theatre in 1957.

"A Song of David" (text from the Book of Psalms) (c. 1960s) for tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra


Harold Boatrite

After early studies with Stanley Hollingsworth, Harold Boatrite was awarded a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center where he studied composition with Lukas Foss and took part in the orchestration seminars of Aaron Copland.


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