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| | The Official Ned Rorem Website: Our Town (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | "Our Town," with music by Ned Rorem and a libretto by J. McClatchy, received its premiere here on Friday evening by the Indiana University Opera Theater, one of six commissioners of this opera. |
 | | "Our Town," you may recall, is about life and love and death in Grover's Corners, N.H., early in the 20th century: boy (George Gibbs) meets girl next door (Emily Webb) amid white picket fences and the drugstore soda counter. |
 | | This "Our Town" is a lovely piece, more designed, however, for younger ensembles in smaller houses, not for, say, the massive Met or Chicago's Lyric. |
| www.nedrorem.com /ourtown (1220 words) |
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