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The curious case of 'microtonalist' John Eaton:

The opera composer John Eaton explains <i>Benjamin Button.</i>

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The curious case of 'microtonalist' John Eaton

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John Eaton’s intimate new “pocket opera” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was begun, he said, long before the release of David Fincher’s 2008 blockbuster movie. But the composer faults Fincher for sentimentalizing the quirky F. Scott Fitzgerald story, in which a man is born elderly and ages backwards, on which both works are based. "I hated the film," he said. More

Posted on June 21st, 2010 7:23am