On June 5th, Symphony Space will host an evening dedicated to Peter Foley’s songs, featuring work that the late composer never had the chance to see or hear onstage.
The death of Stephen Sondheim, in 2021, left a rupture in the theatre world, and especially the musical-theatre world, deeper and more profound than any other artist’s passing could. Sondheim had so dominated that world, at least in its more ambitious and self-consciously artistic reaches, that to lose him was to lose a father—though, in this case, a father often taken on in a forced adoption by self-designated children.
Foley had become, over the years, a quiet fixture on the musical-theatre scene, writing incidental music for many PBS shows, doing the dutiful and meticulous work of copying scores, and serving as a music director on various shows—a role that includes such seemingly mundane tasks as playing the piano in workshops but usually extends, as it did in Foley’s case, to actively editing and amending the composer’s work, particularly when the composer, however gifted, is an unschooled musician.
Choosing Le Guin’s postapocalyptic story, perhaps a bit naïvely, as the perfect vehicle for his professional début, Foley wrote both music and lyrics. Chisolm, to whom he was by now married, was an excellent word-maker and wrote with him the show they called “The Hidden Sky.”
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