Sunday, December 9, 2018

PaloAltoOnline.com: Grant Enables Update of Scott Joplin's Opera "Treemonisha"

Scott Joplin

Palo Alto Online

Dec. 6, 2018

Stanford Live earns Hewlett grant

Grant will be used to create contemporary rendition of 'Treemonisha'


Stanford Live and Weyni Mengesha have been awarded a $150,000 grant from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation to commission and produce a contemporary reimagining of Scott Joplin's 1911 opera "Treemonisha," the foundation announced this week.

It is one of 10 new recipients of the Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions, a five-year, $8 million initiative supporting arts and nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

"Treemonisha" will boast a new libretto and a range of musical styles, including jazz; traditional and contemporary classical music; West African idioms; and the genre Joplin helped popularize, ragtime.

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