Advocate of Projects

Mark Alburger, 21st Century Music: "Barry Drogin is an authority on contemporary opera and music theatre."

John Palmer: "Your ideas for new forms now and for the future will stay with me for a long time."

Dennis Bathory-Kitz: "It's been said that when Western Music started to develop harmony that the subtlety of melody began to be lost, to the point that we have given it only a role as a kind of musical star. Barry Drogin has taken the risk of writing a piece of entirely and completely unadorned melody."

Michael Sahl: "Barry Drogin has created a style with the clear intention of re-purifying the musical theatre and putting the attention uniquely on the voice, a radical departure from musical theatre as well as from opera."

About Typhoid Mary: "Intriguing because it puts us in mind of threats of quarantine in connection with the AIDS crisis." (Gus Solomons, The Village Voice) - "An intriguing dramatization [that] effectively illustrates the fear that drives the public." (Julinda Lewis, Dance Magazine).

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Barry Drogin and Not Nice Music have been active in promoting the work of others through the following projects:

• Not Nice Music has been the proud sponsor of the NewOp/NonOp homepage since 2001, and Barry Drogin has been the American moderator of the C-Opera listserv since 2000. Originally called "The International Meeting of Small-Scale Contemporary Music-Theatre and Opera," annual meetings have been held throughout the world since 1992. The listserv was founded in 1996 by Lukas Pairon and Kent Devereaux.



• If you are under the age of 18 and are interested in applying new software in support of new music, please consider joining the new Volunteer Programmers for New Music.



• If you are over the age of 27 and are interested in a cappella vocal music, please consider the Call for Scores, The Lullaby Project.



• As a connoisseur of the comic song, Barry Drogin set up the Harry Ruby Memorial Page in 1999, and has enjoyed correspondence with Mr. Ruby's relatives and fans as a result.



• Not Nice Music also sponsors and maintains the homepage of mentor Michael Sahl.

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Last Updated: January 5, 2008