Epstein Secrets

to compose a few things at the house at Mina Saud with a piano | had bought in Kuwait. They included an a cappella (unaccompanied) choral setting of Tennyson’s “All Along the Valley”, and something to which I later fit Emily Dickenson’s poem “Beauty Crowds Me” in my song cycle “The White Election”. The com

posed much faster. I set “Usher House” to my earlier libretto based on Poe’s story in about six weeks in 2008 and 2009. “The Canterville Ghost”, on Wilde’s short story, took me about two weeks each, with two months between, Chapter 1: Recollections 1/06/16 14 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010930 for libretto, com

of progress. But that has never yet been the biggest factor: Consider, say, ancient Athens versus the rest of the world at the time. *° Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Zhe Revenge (1878). 87 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016890 search exhaustively. Every improvement in chess-playing Als, between Alan Turing’s first design for

tive strategy of the Greek astronomers, which was wild with metaphorical imagery: circular tubes full of

of progress. But that has never yet been the biggest factor: Consider, say, ancient Athens versus the rest of the world at the time. *° Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Zhe Revenge (1878). 87 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016307 search exhaustively. Every improvement in chess-playing Als, between Alan Turing’s first design for

tive strategy of the Greek astronomers, which was wild with metaphorical imagery: circular tubes full of