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Washington National Opera: the hour-long opera PENNY, with music by Douglas Pew and words by DW, will premiere on January 23 and 24, 2015, at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater. Tickets available here. This project is a WNO/KC American Opera Initiative one-hour commission.

Song cycle TO SEE THE STARS, with music by Faye Chiao and words by DW: March 29, 2015, at the Maryland Science Center. With the LUNAR Ensemble.

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Dara Weinberg

writer // teacher // director // los angeles

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personal identity

February 1, 2009weinberg

I haven’t said anything about John Updike’s death yet. Here’s something he said himself, about bookstores:

“For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.”

Timely as we all process the news of Book Soup’s owner dying and another LA bookstore institution in the throes of succession questionmarks.

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