MUSICAL THEATRE D'Lynn Waldron, PhD copyright 2003

D’Lynn Waldron grew up in the world of the Broadway theatre. While still a teenager she rewrote the dialogue and lyrics for revivals of musicals, and translated the opera L'Elisir d'Amore from Italian into the English Prescription for Love for Bruno Frank's production. This translation has been used many times since.

While a teenage Theater Arts student at Boston University, D'Lynn was befriended by the dean of the Boston drama critics Charles Eliott Norton, her Shakespeare professor, and was his companion at opening nights. D'Lynn was offered the opportunity by Raymond Sovey, another of her professors, to become a set and costume designer on Broadway, but she chose instead to travel the world as a writer and artist, foreign correspondent and a documentarian of traditional ways of life.

She is once again involved in the world of music, which brings her back to what was the happiest time of her life. She is a voting member of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) and of the Society of Composers and Lyricists.

She is currently working on an oratorio Generations for orchestra and twelve voices, in which a matrix of three generations of three families, all connected to each other in different ways, are unable to understand each other across the divides of generation, social class, and gender. As each person tells a part of their story, the other people individually, as well as the other generations as a Greek chorus, comment from their point of view. The three generations stand on tiered steps, the oldest in front.

In photos below, she is with John Williams at the 2002 Britannia Awards. Other photos are with Elmer Bernstein and Jerry Goldsmith.
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