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IU s Phan looks at Vietnamese life in 1945 in What the Horse Eats
Connie Shakalis
Special to the H-T
Making something appalling into something ravishing requires skill. Audiences will learn a bit of Asian history next month during a new one-hour chamber opera.
There s a relationship between composer and audience; those who see What the Horse Eats will learn something about its composer, director and co-librettist.
P.Q. Phan, professor of music composition at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, has come up with a chamber (short with only a few musical instruments, in this case eight) opera about Vietnam in 1945. World War II is moments from ending. ....

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