Recent News
WORLD PREMIERE OF FIAT LUX ON KUSC
On Sunday August 13, 2023, the Pacific Symphony and Pacific Chorale performed Fiat Lux by Sir James Macmillan and Dana Gioia on KUSC.
- Carl St. Clair, conductor
- Elissa Johnston, soprano
- Pacific Chorale – Robert Istad, Artistic Director
- Gregorio ALLEGRI Miserere Mei, Deus
- Richard STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
- James MacMILLAN: Fiat Lux *World Premiere*
Studying with Miss Bishop Review: Learning His Lines: Review by James Campbell in The Wall Street Journal. (December 31, 2020)
Dana Gioia’s Selected Poems Appear in Spanish: La oscuridad intacta, a selection of Dana Gioia’s poems translated by the Costa Rican poet Gustavo Solorzano-Alfarohas, has been published in Spanish by Pre-Textos (Madrid, Buenos Aires, Valencia). The book surveys Gioia’s poetic career and includes two critical essays about his work. Copies can be ordered from the publisher or on Amazon.
Dana Gioia “On Being Translated into Spanish“ This essay first appeared in Rosebud with Gustavo Solórzano-Alfaro’s translation of Dana Gioia’s poem “Insomnia”
Composer John Theodore created this film and music based on Dana Gioia’s poem “Prayer”
Selected Interviews
On Serving as California Poet Laureate. Published in Catamaran (Summer, 2017). Interview with Maggie Paul.
Paradigms Lost. Interview with Gloria Brame.
On Writing Nosferatu and the Role of Poet as Librettist. Interview with Lequita Vance-Watkins.
World Literature Today. Interview with Michelle Johnson.
Entrevista a Dana Gioia. Interview in Elipsis: poesía y literatura desde el sur.