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Thanks for this Hedvig.
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<div>Speaking of operas, I am part of a team working on the libretto for an opera that will premier in New York, Santa Fe, Moscow, and Beijing in 2015/2016, based on a book by Umberto Eco, The Three Astronauts: <a href="http://ardeaarts.com/the-three-astronauts/">http://ardeaarts.com/the-three-astronauts/</a></div>
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<div>Its librettists include, besides me, best-selling Russian author Dmitri Glukhovsky, Chinese jazz musician and author Sola Liu, and Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, Yusek Komunyakaa. There is an international team of composers working on this, as the site
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<div>All best,</div>
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<div>Dan</div>
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<div>On Oct 4, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Hedvig Skirgård <<a href="mailto:hedvig.skirgard@gmail.com">hedvig.skirgard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Have you also heard of the opera by Charles F. Hockett, "The Loves of Dona Rosita", and its rather special twist?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://humanswhoreadgrammars.tumblr.com/post/78298435952/the-great-linguist-charles-f-hockett-creator-of-the">http://humanswhoreadgrammars.tumblr.com/post/78298435952/the-great-linguist-charles-f-hockett-creator-of-the</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">/Hedvig Skirgård</div>
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Sharing is caring, if you stumble across something you think I might find interesting then send it my way. I do the same.<br>
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Please forgive me for any mistakes of orthography (especially Swedish and French diacritics), I try to answer as fast as possible and sometimes that results in less than optimal key board output.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-02 22:22 GMT+02:00 Everett, Daniel <span dir="ltr">
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The link below is to a 1964 song performed by Jerry Lee Lewis and his band. It is on a couple of Lewis’s albums. Its linguistic relevance? It was composed by a young Geoffrey Pullum.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayURbn0tuM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayURbn0tuM</a><br>
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