Linguistic Trivia

[Everett, Daniel]

Thanks for this Hedvig.

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: http://ardeaarts.com/the-three-astronauts/

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 indicates.

All best,

Dan




On Oct 4, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Hedvig Skirgård <hedvig.skirgard at gmail.com<mailto:hedvig.skirgard at gmail.com>> wrote:

Thanks, that's a nice piece of linguistic trivia.

Have you also heard of the opera by Charles F. Hockett, "The Loves of Dona Rosita", and its rather special twist?

http://humanswhoreadgrammars.tumblr.com/post/78298435952/the-great-linguist-charles-f-hockett-creator-of-the

/Hedvig Skirgård

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2014-10-02 22:22 GMT+02:00 Everett, Daniel <DEVERETT at bentley.edu<mailto:DEVERETT at bentley.edu>>:
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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayURbn0tuM

Dan Everett


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