Music: Curtis Opera Theatre presents ‘A Quiet Place’ at the Kaye Playhouse

Cast of Curtis Opera Theatre 's production of "A Quiet Place". Photo: Andrew Bogard

2018 marks the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth.  Accomplishments such as the first American music director of the NY Philharmonic, music educator who united the concert hall with television, and composer "West Side Story" fill more than one lifetime.  Yet that formidable legacy overshadows his lesser-known work worth knowing, including "A Quiet Place." On March 13, 2018 his alma mater, the Curtis Institute of Music, visited from Philadelphia for a single performance of the 1983 opera at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. "A Quiet Place" is the sequel to Bernstein's 1951 "Trouble in Tahiti".  Both are one act, and Bernstein

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