Vonnegut pens a new `Tale'

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: May 13, 1998| Author: WYNNE DELACOMA | Copyright information
`A Soldier's Tale' Steppenwolf Traffic series 7:30 p.m. Monday 1650 N. Halsted Tickets, $30 (312) 335-1650

Last month, master trumpeter Wynton Marsalis offered his jazz-inspired take on Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale," one of the gems of 20th century classical music, at Symphony Center.

Now novelist Kurt Vonnegut has taken his turn with Stravinsky's 1918 music theater piece; he's written a new libretto for the work. It will be heard Monday as part of Traffic, Steppenwolf Theat...

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