Warren Lehrer

“The Search For IT and Other Pronouns is a brilliant, fantastic work. Absolutely riveting!”
KPFA, Pacifica Radio Charles Amirkhanian

“The Search For IT and Other Pronouns is an aesthetic colossus, straddling theater, music, social satire and design… a carefully constructed study in counterpoint, filled with lots of surprises… The CD booklet is a work of art…”
New York Public Radio David Garland

“…Lehrer also co-composed, with Harvey Goldman, the song cycle The Search For IT and Other Pronouns, a full-length compact disc that has the most intelligently and imaginatively designed accompanying booklet to come my way, reminding us that the secondary elements of any artifact deserve as much attention as the primary ones…”
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes Richard Kostelanetz

Audio CD of contemporary opera written and composed by Harvey Goldman and Warren Lehrer. Published by La La Music, 1992.

This full-length audio CD is a musical setting of attitudes and longings for voices and instruments. Nine pieces explore the search for the big ITs—power (Tag Yer IT), an AIDS cure (It Just Might Work), love (Hymn for Her), victory (I for an I), god (You and Me), material wealth (You Got Nothin), the ineffable (Something or Other); and other pronouns (They, He is a She Dog). A collaboration between Warren Lehrer and Harvey Goldman, this post-minimalist opera, has received some good airplay on new music radio programs throughout the country. Composed with the aid of midi-synthesis, the recording features Goldman and Lehrer on digital and acoustic instruments and voice, as well as baritone Alan Seale, sopranos Patricia Ruiz, Nina Heller and Angela DeCicco, extended vocals Stacy Schuman, spoken word Judith Sloan and Brother Blue. Includes 12 page booklet with complete lyrics.

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“The Search For IT and Other Pronouns is a brilliant, fantastic work. Absolutely riveting!”
KPFA, Pacifica Radio Charles Amirkhanian

“The Search For IT and Other Pronouns is an aesthetic colossus, straddling theater, music, social satire and design… a carefully constructed study in counterpoint, filled with lots of surprises… The CD booklet is a work of art…”
New York Public Radio David Garland

“…Lehrer also co-composed, with Harvey Goldman, the song cycle The Search For IT and Other Pronouns, a full-length compact disc that has the most intelligently and imaginatively designed accompanying booklet to come my way, reminding us that the secondary elements of any artifact deserve as much attention as the primary ones…”
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes Richard Kostelanetz