Blind Witness: Three American Operas

by Charles Bernstein

Drama. BLIND WITNESS brings together three libretti written in the early 1990s by poet Charles Bernstein for composer Ben Yarmolinsky. Bernstein & Yarmolinsky's trilogy combines vernacular American lyrics with vernacular social forms. 'Blind Witness News' uncannily mimics the format of the eleven o'clock evening news with segments for international and local news, weather, business news, and sports. Then, as now, war sets the dark undertone. 'The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600019935
• ISBN13: 9781600019937
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Factory School
• Length: 110 Pages