Email address
roger@rogerrudenstein.com
roger@rogerrudenstein.com
I studied music with Fu Yuan Soong and Walter Hilse who taught
me to make music that is entertaining as well as artful. I’ve
composed five full length operas and a musical, of which five
have already been performed in New York and New England
(Faustus, an updating of the tale to the current age based on
Goethe and Marlowe; Azazel, about a Jesus-like rebel; Ulysses,
based on the novel of James Joyce; Grace, the first full-length
opera about AIDS based on the play by Edward Langlois and
John Carmichael; and Onions, a musical for kids (performed at
the Prescott Park Arts Festival).
These received some good reviews when the critics and the
stars were in alignment (“gorgeous and rewarding”,”his music
mirrors the profundity of Joyce’s words”) and some really terrible
ones (“slunk into town”,”not art”).
I have a large repertoire of recently-composed chamber works
which reflect my reaction to the greed-based, warlike, national
security state we suffer in. This part of my work is dubbed The
Nightmare of Reason opus. My new recording, State of the
Union, is part of these works.
I have won the Masterworks of the New Era award twice. I have a
newly released recording on the MMC label called “State of the
Union” and recordings coming out soon on the Masterworks
label.
I currently live in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with my wife,
Marilyn, and cats, Marshmallow and Huckleberry.
me to make music that is entertaining as well as artful. I’ve
composed five full length operas and a musical, of which five
have already been performed in New York and New England
(Faustus, an updating of the tale to the current age based on
Goethe and Marlowe; Azazel, about a Jesus-like rebel; Ulysses,
based on the novel of James Joyce; Grace, the first full-length
opera about AIDS based on the play by Edward Langlois and
John Carmichael; and Onions, a musical for kids (performed at
the Prescott Park Arts Festival).
These received some good reviews when the critics and the
stars were in alignment (“gorgeous and rewarding”,”his music
mirrors the profundity of Joyce’s words”) and some really terrible
ones (“slunk into town”,”not art”).
I have a large repertoire of recently-composed chamber works
which reflect my reaction to the greed-based, warlike, national
security state we suffer in. This part of my work is dubbed The
Nightmare of Reason opus. My new recording, State of the
Union, is part of these works.
I have won the Masterworks of the New Era award twice. I have a
newly released recording on the MMC label called “State of the
Union” and recordings coming out soon on the Masterworks
label.
I currently live in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with my wife,
Marilyn, and cats, Marshmallow and Huckleberry.
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