The Rush and Molloy column in the New York Daily News, always a prime source for news in the world of modern composition, claims that Charles Wuorinen is composing an opera based on Brokeback Mountain. (Via Andrew Yee of the Attacca Quartet.)... Congratulations to Dawn Upshaw on receiving a richly deserved MacArthur Foundation fellowship.... James Roe remembers his friend Albert Fuller, whose obituary appears in today's New York Times.
Update: As Matthew Westphal's story in PlaybillArts attests, the Wuorinen story is indeed true, although the project is still in the planning stages.
