James Legg (3)

James J. Legg, Jr. (1962-200) Mr. Legg was born was a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he received a bachelor of music degree. He also earned a master's degree from Duke University, where he worked with Robert Ward. Mr. Legg was an award-winning composer who was a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop 1998-2000. Among his many grants and awards were a Fulbright Hayes grant for study in Italy with Hans Werner Henze. He was a member of BMI and the Los Angeles Society of Composers and Lyricists. He was a composition fellow at Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Center, the Aspen Music Festival, the Banff Center for the Arts, the Bellagio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the William Flanagan Memorial Center. He wrote six one-act operas for the stage, including The Informer, based on a short play of Bertolt Brecht in which a family fears that their son, a member of the Hitler Youth, is informing against them; The Power of Xingu, based on an Edith Wharton short story; and Bellarocca, an original piece. Mr. Legg composed film scores for more than a dozen independent pictures and wrote incidental music for theatrical productions. His work has been commissioned by Joseph Papp, Houston Grand Opera, and The New York Youth Symphony, which premiered his "Manhattan Overtures" in Carnegie Hall. His opera of All My Sons was to have had a libretto by Sam Holtzapple. Mr. Legg was a "musical assistant" on the Broadway shows The Phantom of the Opera, City of Angels, Will Rogers Follies, Jelly's Last Jam, Five Guys Named Moe, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jekyll & Hyde, The Life and Rent.