“Where There is Light” performed

As time allows, I have been col­lab­o­rat­ing with lyri­cist Emily Thomp­son over the last few years on an orig­i­nal musi­cal cen­tered on Hades, the Greek god of the Under­world. The song “Where There is Light” was per­formed as part of the Mannes Col­lege Exten­sion Division’s sum­mer opera work­shop a few sum­mers ago, and I was delighted to see it programmed¬†again¬†as¬†part¬†of¬†the¬†2009¬†summer¬†workshop.

I was even more delighted that the lyri­cist, Emily Thomp­son, per­formed the work. I was caught unpre­pared and had only my phone cam­era with me, so apolo­gies for the qual­ity of the pics! This is Emily singing to the fine tenor, Fran­cisco San­ti­ago, plead­ing to leave the under­world and return to “where there is light.”

The¬†performance¬†was¬†at the St. Paul and St. Andrew Methodist Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, July 10 2009.