Walker and the Ghost Dance

Walker and the Ghost DanceDazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents into a portrait

Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate

On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion -- Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents -- into a portrait of life at a crossroads of American history.

In Walker, an opera first performed in 1992 and revised for its revival in 2001, Walcott shifts his attention east, taking for his subject David Walker, the nineteenth-century black abolitionist. In Walcott 's hands Walker becomes a classical hero for his people: a leader who is also a poet.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 08/15/2002
ISBN: 9780374528140
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 10.20h x 4.42w x 0.68d

Review Citations: Library Journal 07/01/2002 pg. 81
Booklist 08/01/2002 pg. 1912
Library Journal 07/15/2002