We also witness his early years when he and Steve Wozniak horsed around and found a way to break into Ma Bell. It does not whitewash his faults we see him being self-centered, obsessive, demanding, and cruel. Campbell chose to present a seemingly-random group of episodic anecdotes to build a narrative that is more personal than the general perception of Jobs. Knowing that the personality of Jobs presented problems, Bates sought out Mark Campbell, the librettist of the acclaimed opera Silent Night and of Broadway shows, to be his creative partner. All of this is within the instrumental palette of a symphony orchestra.īates sits in the orchestra with his own computer and other electronic devices at performances of Alternative Energy and of this new opera. It presents a sound representing the crank which Henry Ford used to start his automobiles and proceeds to the sounds of nuclear reactors and of icebergs melting and breaking apart because of global warming. To date, his biggest success has been Alternative Energy, commissioned and premiered by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony and performed this past season by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Then he turned to classical compositions that utilized keyboard samplings of sounds and other electronica.
He is a deejay and a creator of electronic soundscapes. The composer Mason Bates was drawn to the subject because of his own interest in technology. Edward Parks, Garrett Sorenson, and the Santa Fe Opera Chorus. So the choice of Jobs’ life for an opera was no slam dunk. Yet Steve Jobs has been an elusive subject, as proven by the failure of two motion picture attempts. That’s the essence of his story, and it contains basic conflict, which is the stuff of drama. Yet he was a spectacular failure in communicating with his friends and family on a personal level.
He showed the world how to get “everything” anyone needed on a single gadget. Steve Jobs was a revolutionary genius in communicating.
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