And It's Again: Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill
Papageorge, Tod / Winogrand, Garry / McDonough, Paul
In January 1967, the jazz composer and pianist Carla Bley (1936¿2023) received a poem in the mail from a writer-friend, Paul Haines. As she later said, it ¿fit mysteriously with a piece of music I was working on, Detective Writer Daughter. When I told [Paul] how amazing this was, we decided to write an opera together, an overstatement by two people who didn¿t have to watch their words.¿ In 1971, the result of this collaboration¿the more than t...