{"id":289,"date":"2014-03-17T20:38:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T20:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/?p=289"},"modified":"2014-03-17T20:38:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T20:38:27","slug":"gaithersburg-cupertino-san-jose-chelsea-and-vienna-roadkill-business-and-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/2014\/03\/17\/gaithersburg-cupertino-san-jose-chelsea-and-vienna-roadkill-business-and-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaithersburg, Cupertino, San Jose, Chelsea, and Vienna: Roadkill Business and Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parker is scheduled to participate as an exhibiting author at the\u00a0Gaithersburg Book Festival<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday, May 17, 2014, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. This year, CDs of the studio recording of\u00a0A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0will be available for sale, along with published sheet music \u00a0(including a conductor’s score) and\u00a0If you see roadkill, think opera<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Parker participated in the 2013 GBF as a literary merchant; the studio recording was played in preview, as it was released commercially on July 4, 2013.<\/p>\n

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Tracks from the studio recording of\u00a0A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0were previewed at the May 2013 Gaithersburg Book Festival in Maryland\u00a0<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

While on a recent trip to California, Stephan Alexander Parker caught up with some early fans of A Roadkill Opera.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Rod Diridon was the first to comment on the recording, writing: “A profound and enjoyable piece of art that speaks to the modern condition. \u00a0A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a 59 minute \u201cmust have\u201d step into the future of music. This sounds almost like a spoof but it is not. Enjoy.”<\/p>\n

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Rod Diridon (at right) with Stephan Alexander Parker in San Jose in March 2014. Diridon was the first to comment on the studio recording of A RoadkIll Opera<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Must be something about California\u2026the first person to purchase a CD of A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0through Amazon.com was George Jahad.<\/p>\n

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George Jahad on the campus of Stanford University in July 2013 holding a copy of If you see roadkill, think opera<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Cupertino, songwriter David Greenstein sang some of his original songs after receiving sheet music and a CD of A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em> from Stephan Alexander Parker.<\/p>\n

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David Greenstein is a multiple threat: singer, songwriter, pianist. Greenstein is seen here at his piano performing an original song<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stephan Alexander Parker made a pilgrimage to the storefront of Da Caruso<\/a> in Vienna, Austria, in December 2013. Staff at Da Caruso were instrumental in identifying the music Parker had recorded off of a Chicago classical FM station in 1979; Ferdinando Paer’s Leonora<\/strong><\/em> has only been commercially recorded once, they informed him in 2003. The LP was out of print and a CD was not released until February 2013, a month after Parker held the first recording session for A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Stephan Alexander Parker brought CDs of the studio recording of A Roadkill Opera<\/strong> to Da Caruso in Vienna, Austria<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In October 2013, Parker met with his New York business representative. Discussions on potential venues for live performances are ongoing. Among the likely locations are New York, Nashville, Tampa, San Francisco, and Washington DC.<\/p>\n

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Stephan Alexander Parker met with his New York business representative, Ryah Naomi, on the High Line in Chelsea<\/a>, to receive first proceeds from sales of A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em> sheet music and the story collection If you see roadkill, think opera<\/strong><\/em> to Strand Books<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Parker is scheduled to participate as an exhibiting author at the\u00a0Gaithersburg Book Festival\u00a0on Saturday, May 17, 2014, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. This year, CDs of the studio recording of\u00a0A Roadkill Opera\u00a0will be available for sale, along with published sheet music \u00a0(including a conductor’s score) and\u00a0If you see roadkill, think opera. \u00a0Parker participated in the 2013 GBF … Continue reading Gaithersburg, Cupertino, San Jose, Chelsea, and Vienna: Roadkill Business and Fans<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}