The University of Toledo

UT Theatre & Film Deptartment Wows Carnegie!

Theatre professor Cornel Gabara directed "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour," a kind of "play with orchestra, created by composer André Previn and playwright Tom Stoppard, in which the orchestra serves as one of several characters. Film student, Brendan Boettler, created the video projections (shown in the photo).

Toledo Symphony conductor Stefan Sanderling chose the piece, paired with Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6, as the program for the TSO's application for Carnegie Hall's Spring for Music festival, and as a result, the Symphony was rewarded with the prestigious Saturday night slot of the opening weekend. Saturday, May 7 was the premiere of the full-orchestration version of this piece at Carnegie. Local Reviews, New York Times Review