| Description | Sheet music and manuscript notes from 'The River Empedon', an opera written by Mark Beeson and Gerard McBurney. [According to Gerard McBurney, the opera was written by Mark and Gerard while at Winchester College in 1971 after the art master of the college, Graham Drew, suggested they write an opera together. "Mark came up with the plot and then wrote the libretto, and [Gerard] composed the music, mostly in the summer holiday of 1971." The opera was never performed, but Gerard sent a copy of the music to Nadia Boulanger in Paris and later visited her in 1973.] |