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Michael S. Roth Biography (1954-)

Born July 23, 1954, in Brooklyn, NY; son of William (a lawyer) and Sophie (Shub) Roth. Addresses: HOME--248 W. 105th Street, New York, NY 10025; 388 Nautilus Street, La Jolla, CA 92037.

Nationality

American

Birth Details

July 23, 1954

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Famous Works

• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE WORK; MUSIC DIRECTOR AND ORCHESTRATOR
• Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong: The Songs of Randy Newman, Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, La Jolla Playhouse, CA, and Astor Place Theatre, New York City, 1984.
• Big River, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, 1984.
• Writings;COMPOSITIONS
• The Dybbuk, Impossible Ragtime Theatre, New York City, 1977.
• Dynamite Tonight, two piano adaptation of an opera by William Bolcom, 1980.
• Theme for a Futuristic Movie, piano composition, Windham Hill Records, 1980.
• Rag for Five Instruments, commissioned chamber composition, Spectrum Ensemble, New York City, 1981.
• (co-composer) Hopi Prophecies, opera, West Bank Cafe, New York City, 1983.
• No End to Stand On, commissioned chamber composition, New York Quintet, Merkin Hall, New York City, 1983.
• The Visions of Simone Machard, La Jolla Playhouse, 1983.
• As You Like It, La Jolla Playhouse, 1984.
• Ghost on Fire and The Seagull, both at the La Jolla Playhouse, 1985.
• Streich, commissioned flute quartet, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York City, Atheneum Theatre, La Jolla, 1986.
• composer and sound designer, Cleveland, BACA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 1986.
• composer and sound designer, 1951, for the University of California at San Diego at the Perry Street Theatre, New York City, both 1986.
• composer and sound designer, The Three Cuckolds, La Jolla Playhouse, BillIrwin performer.
• Works-in-progress: "Fats," composition for piano; "Accidental Requiem," chamber compostion brass quintet with tape loop; "Imagination Dead Imagine," chamber composition to text by Samuel Beckett.