Reviewed By: Robyn Brinkley

Musical Storytelling

http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/milestones/990915motm.storytelling.html

"Once Upon a Time: Storytelling with Lowell Liebermann and John Coregliano" is a webpage from the huge website of NPR, National Public Radio, under the section called Performance Today - Milestones of the Millenium. NPR is a nonprofit organization created to "provide leadership in national news gathering" in radio. The homepage of NPR proudly acknowledges that "in its 30 years, NPR has won every major award in journalism for news and cultural programming in America." The webpage was copyrighted in 1999 and the website is updated daily. This particular page contains a short article that previews an audio program examining the ways different composers interpret stories musically. Several classical composers of the past, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Hector Berlioz, and two contemporary American composers, Lowell Liebermann and John Corigliano, are covered. Their works are derived from a variety of sources, from the classic literature of Ovid and Shakespeare, to tales of Edgar Allen Poe. The webpage has an audio link where the actual interview with Liebermann and Corigliano must be. However, several attempts to use the link proved unsuccessful. (It goes to a NPR "page not found" that includes a search engine. The search just leads back to the original page with no audio.) There are archives that may be searched by the more tenacious, but, unfortunately, this researcher could not locate the elusive link.