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`Doxology Opera' aims high
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`Doxology Opera:
The Doxy Canticles'
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday;
4 p.m. Sunday
Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago
Tickets, $18
(312) 397-4010
Large ambitions are riding on "Doxology Opera: The Doxy Canticles"
by playwright Paul Carter Harrison and composer Wendell Logan.
Harrison and Logan didn't simply want to write an opera. They wanted
to write an entirely new kind of opera.
"It's not Gershwin," said Harrison emphatically of th...
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