Stencils, Vol. 1, by Strange Trace

Stencils, Vol. 1

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1.	The Real Me 18:05	buy track
2.	Goliath 15:40	buy track
3.	The Smaller Competitor: Scene 1 03:38	buy track
4.	The Smaller Competitor: Scene 2 08:38	buy track
5.	The Smaller Competitor: Scene 3 03:34	buy track
6.	A Single Unbending Curve: Scene 1 04:42	buy track
7.	A Single Unbending Curve: Scene 2 03:27	buy track
8.	A Single Unbending Curve: Scene 3 04:06	buy track
9.	A Single Unbending Curve: Scene 4 04:04	buy track
10.	A Single Unbending Curve: Scene 5 02:48	buy track
11.	A Single Unbending Curve: Scene 6 03:29	buy track
12.	Music of the Goddess: Scene 1 13:03	buy track
13.	Music of the Goddess: Scene 2 10:16	buy track

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Stencils is an annual short opera festival hosted by Strange Trace. The composers and librettists featured here were selected from an international call for proposals, and they spent about nine months developing their works with Strange Trace.

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released October 22, 2021

The Real Me - music and libretto by Paul Smith
The Smaller Competitor - music and libretto by Anthony Green
Goliath - music and libretto by Florence Anna Maunders
A Single Unbending Curve - composed by Clifton Ingram, libretto by Richard Funkhouser
Music of the Goddess - music by Matt Frey, libretto by Shualee Cook

Piano, percussion, and theremin - Greg Nahabedian
Clarinet - Shannon Williams, Joshua Scheid (Curve Scene 6)
Cello - Ben Baker
Violin - Nicole Parks

All voices by Joshua Scheid, Felix Aguilar-Tomlinson, Erin Matthews, Frances Kruske, and Elena Stabile

Recorded and mixed by Greg Nahabedian
Mastered by Tyler Bisson

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We make new operas. Or things that resemble operas. There's definitely singing, usually.

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