Opera Gala's Riff on Scott Joplin; At Mount Vernon, a Tantalizing Glimpse of the Work in Progress From: The Washington Post | Date: June 24, 1988| Author: Joseph McLellan | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Is the world ready for an opera about Scott Joplin? An opera written not in Joplin's own catchy ragtime idioms but in the clean-lined, angular and emotionally rather cool cadences of contemporary post-tonality?

Well, ready or not, here it comes: "The Composing of the Heliotrope Bouquet," with a libretto by Eric Overmyer, music by Roger Trefousse and a drowsy, sensual opening scene that takes place at sunrise in the House of Blue Light, a New Orleans sporting house.

"Joplin's...

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