To Think like a Composer The Making of Ann & Séamus: A Chamber Opera 作曲家 室內歌劇

由邁克爾-奧斯特羅夫（Michael Ostroff，Pegi Nicol）執導，瑪麗-塞克斯頓（Mary Sexton，曾獲雙子星獎Tommy...A Family Portrait）和希瑟-尤斯塔斯（Heather Eustace）製作的《像作曲家一樣思考》（To Think Like a Composer）是一部介紹加拿大作曲家、指揮家、教育家和文藝復興時期人物斯蒂芬-哈特菲爾德（Stephen Hatfield）的歡樂而生動的紀錄片。這部紀錄片揭示了哈特菲爾德和蘇珊-奈特以及聖約翰的 Shallaway 青年合唱團在製作一部由青年為成人演出的歌劇時的創作合作激情和緊張氣氛。這部歌劇改編自凱文-梅傑的小說Ann & Séamus。在哈特菲爾德的作品中，沒有頤指氣使的陳詞濫調。這部歌劇講述了悲傷、心碎和生存的喜悅--紐芬蘭人的精神--通過 1828 年紐芬蘭西南海岸外的奧克斯島（Isle Aux Morts）上的海難、生存和愛情故事來詮釋"

作曲家: Stephen Hatfield
樂器: Choral
原文簡介:
Directed by Michael Ostroff (Pegi Nicol) and produced by Mary Sexton (Gemini Award Winning Tommy...A Family Portrait), and Heather Eustace, To Think Like a Composer is a joyful and exuberant introduction to the world of Canadian composer, conductor, educator and renaissance man Stephen Hatfield. A documentary that reveals the creative collaborative excitement and tension as Hatfield and Susan Knight and Shallaway Youth Chorus of St. John's produce an opera performed by youth for adults. An opera based on the novel Ann & Séamus by Kevin Major. There are no patronizing platitudes in Hatfield's work. The opera deals with sadness, heartbreak, and the joy of existence – the Newfoundland ethos – as interpreted in a story of shipwreck, survival, and love on the Isle Aux Morts off the southwest coast of Newfoundland in 1828.