Long Tongues: A Saxophone Opera

Details:

Instrumentation: tenor soloist, 2 rap singers; sax sextet, pno, bs, drs; stgs
Duration: 150'
Full Score & Parts: available on rental
Composed: 1989
Published by: Subito Music Corporation

Multi-media work -- instrumental ensemble, dancers, actors, slide projections -- loosely based on the history of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Club from 1943 to 1968
World Premiere: 1989 in Washington D.C.; New York premiere: 1990 at the Apollo Theater