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Joan Crowell
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Biography
JOAN CROWELL was born in 1921. She is a poet, composer, librettist, and novelist. She received her MA from New York University, where she taught English. She is the author of Portrait of a Father (as Joan Simon) and Fort Dix Stockade. Her operas include The Heights and The Bell Witch of Tennessee.
“Joan Crowell speaks a language all her own, and what she says goes far.”—Ned Rorem
"In recent years Joan Crowell has lived an oceanic life a few feet from the surf on the south shore of Long Island: a wife, composer of operas, mother of five children, a great-grandmother—a poet whose writing is sometimes clear as a glass of water, sometimes clouded by personal storms. She has lived a long life of privilege and struggle. What comes through is some honest work touched with beauty, words that should not be lost, useful to others."—Stanley Moss
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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