All Stories
Jun 11, 2005
New Music at La Maison Française
This DCist is always surprised to learn the strange stories behind how artists inspire one another. In 1957, Philip K. Dick published a novel called Eye in the Sky. Years later, composer Robert Dick, no relation to the author, wrote a hallucinogenic and extremely difficult piece for solo flute that takes its name and subject matter from that novel. As previewed in this week’s Classical Music Agenda, we heard the composer himself, who teaches at…