Door
by Tom Johnson
Soprano Voice - Sheet Music

Two Soprano voices and Piano

SKU: 2E.TJ006

Composed by Tom Johnson. Opera. Vocal Score. Duration 15 Minutes. Two-Eighteen Press #TJ006. Published by Two-Eighteen Press (2E.TJ006).

Someone is at the door, but the two singers are too tired to answer it. They sing many cadences on the word yawn. I had always loved the Americans tradition known as 'shaggy dog stories,' those repetitive stories that take a very long time to tell until they finally end with some dumb punch line, usually a simple word play or an ironic remark, so my next operatic attempt, in 1978, went in that direction. The result was five chamber operas, about 15 minutes each, which I staged myself in a small loft space in Lower Manhattan. (from The Four Note Opera, 32 Years Later by Tom Johnson).