Also this week, more news on Little Amal's visit to San Diego in November and a San Diego native scores at the Edinburgh Fringe fest
, the UC San Diego music professor whose operas include “The Central Park Five” and “X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” is one of seven inductees to the Opera Hall of Fame’s class of 2023.
Davis is an internationally recognized composer of operatic, symphonic, choral and chamber works who has been on the cutting edge of improvised music and jazz for more than 40 years. His eight operas include “Under the Double Moon ,” “Amistad” and “Wakonda’s Dream.” His “The Central Park Five,” which premiered at Long Beach Opera” in 2019, received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
The Opera Hall of Fame awardees join an existing list of NEA Opera Honorees, which were awarded from 2008 to 2011 by Opera America and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2021 and 2022, Amal walked through Eastern and Western Europe. The U.S. tour begins Sept. 7 in Boston and will cross the country before arriving in California, with stops in Joshua Tree on Oct. 29, Los Angeles from Oct. 21-Nov. 3 and finally, San Diego Nov. 3-5. The 6,000-mile, 35-city U.S. tour is important for Walk with Amal because America has long been a refuge for the displaced.
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