Summary: <p>If you've never lived through one, David Hanlon's chamber opera After the Storm is a good place to begin to understand what "hurricane" really means. The opera premiered with Houston Grand Opera's HGOco via their Song of Houston initiative this May. In this episode, composer Hanlon talks about conducting research for the opera, which included investigating Galveston's 1900 Storm, about capturing the awesomeness of a massive hurricane in a chamber opera, and about living through a monster storm himself. Hunker down and gather... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/2016/06/13/156603/classical-classroom-ep-130-the-eye-of-the-opera-with-david-hanlon/">Read More</a></p>
