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“My Life Online” debuts at Edinburgh Fringe

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Scott Eyerly’s tour-de-force one-woman show was featured at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. A unique comedic musical/opera starring Sarah Minns, directed by Oliver Platt, with Lana Bode piano, My Life Online tells the story of Kay, who hasn’t left her apartment for a year. She sees her shrink on Skype, does the cardio carioca workout virtually, and orders everything online. Yet she was once a dynamic immigration lawyer. What happened? Is it agoraphobia? Or something else? This all-sung, one-woman comedy reveals why Kay’s shut herself in… and what it’ll take to get her out.

The reviews are stellar:

The Scotsman “Smart, witty one-woman contemporary opera!”

The Telegraph on Sarah Minns: “It’s hard to imagine anyone doing it better!”

EdinburghFringeGuide

The Edinburgh Reporter

Rating: 3 out of 5.

You can purchase the score here.

Slatkin gives the premiere of ARLINGTON SONS in Pittsburgh

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Leonard Slatkin conducted the world premiere of Eyerly’s Arlington Sons with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh on three subscription performances (October 5, 6 and 7, 2012). Commissioned by Broadway and Metropolitan Opera star David Pittsinger, Arlington Sons is a unique 12-minute piece for baritone, boy soprano and orchestra. By turns moving and humorous, the work depicts a father and son visiting Arlington Cemetery in Virginia, to watch the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns. Arlington Sons was conceived specifically for the real-life father-son duo of David and Richard Pittsinger, and is believed to be the first vocal piece written for a father and son. Adding resonance to the themes of fatherhood, “sonhood” and patriotism, David’s own father was a guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns. The Pittsburgh performances of Arlington Sons follow the work’s premiere in piano arrangement at a February gala for the Glimmerglass Festival in New York City, where Mssrs. Pittsinger were accompanied by Fred Lassen at the keyboard.

WFSB feature about the creation of Arlington Sons