What other jobs might you be interested in if you weren't so busy writing music?

Stewart Wallace
http://www.hapka.com/usopera/composers/wallace/

Stewart Wallace Photo by Steve Sherman

'd make things with my hands like a sculptor or a painter. Things that I could touch. Things that would be done when I was done. Where the thing was the thing itself - not a roadmap to be interpreted, not dependent on the skills of the interpreter. Or maybe I'd be an architect. With building codes and zoning laws and construction workers and corporate patrons, this seems to me even more of a headache than being a composer writing an opera.

[Ed. Note: Stewart Wallace just completed his first ballet, a three act version of Peter Pan with choreography by Graham Lustig, which will premiere in Dallas TX at the Fairpark Music Hall on April 21, 2000 at 8:00 PM. There will be additional performances in Dallas on April 22 at 2:00 and 8:00 PM, and in Fort Worth TX at the Bass Performance Hall on May 5 at 8:00 PM, May 6 at 2:00 and 8:00 PM, and May 7 (Mother's Day) at 2:00 PM.]

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