Ricky Ian Gordon

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Ricky Ian Gordon (born May 15, 1956) is a New York City-based composer known for his lyrical approach to theatre and art song. The death of his lover from AIDS has inspired Dream True (1998) and Orpheus and Euridice (2005). He has composed several operas and had his music performed by Audra McDonald, Dawn Upshaw, Renée Fleming, Todd Palmer and others.

Gordon grew up on Long Island and attended Carnegie Mellon University. Donald Katz wrote the book Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America, based on Gordon's family life.

In 2007, Gordon's new opera "The Grapes of Wrath" will premiere in a co-production with The Minnesota Opera and the Utah Symphony and Opera.[1]

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