The Boston Tea Party Opera

02/20/2017

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05/24/2016

Vote, folks!

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11/23/2015

It's been a while since I sent out my email newsletter; here's the one from yesterday - covering my new book, a new review of my opera, a mini-documentary I made, and a book recommendation. - M. Zachary Johnson

10/15/2015

Just found out about this write-up of the premiere of The Boston Tea Party Opera at FringeNYC - The New York International Fringe Festival last year! "And now for something … completely different!... There’s much to enjoy in its rhythmic riffs, vocal pyrotechnics, and harmonic sonorities. And the music is extremely well served by a young, enthusiastic cast of a dozen or so prodigious vocal talents. In short, it was certainly worth my time and may well be worth yours."

08/09/2015

Today is the one-year anniversary of the world premiere of the Boston Tea Party Opera at the NY International Fringe Festival! Great memories. Stay tuned for more info about the future of the show...

"Opera with a conscience" - CurtainUp.com

06/12/2015

"The famous cry at the Boston Tea Party of “no taxation without representation” in 1773 reflected one of the major grievances of American colonists and provided a direct link back to Sir Edward Coke’s interpretation of Clause 12 in Magna Carta from the original 1215 manuscript." http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/local/latest-local-news/holkham-s-role-in-the-revival-of-magna-carta-1-6793360

This summer marks a series of events celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta – and it will also feature in a new display at Holkham Hall.

06/05/2015

Somebody wrote a children's musical on the subject of... guess what?
“It’s a great way to instill the feeling of history,” Gries said. “The kids have to really get in the mind-set of how the colonists were feeling when the British were imposing acts to take away their rights. It makes them have to feel history rather than just recite it.”

NORTHFIELD — Students in Ellenjo Gries’ fifth-grade class will perform “The Destruction of the Tea,” a musical based on the

05/25/2015

"n 1860 the Boston historian and activist William Cooper Nell received new information about Crispus Attucks and his family. It doesn't appear to have been analyzed by more recent historians."

Labels: animals, blacks, Crispus Attucks, Framingham, Natick, Native Americans, Prince Yongey/Prince Jonar, remembering the Revolution, Sutton, Thomas Buckminster, William Brown

05/17/2015

"If the Boston Tea Party taught us anything, it’s that people love tea. That cold, December morning, however, almost ruined its reputation forever. " http://www.bustle.com/articles/75321-is-tea-better-for-you-than-coffee-tea-is-definitely-having-a-moment-and-here-are

If the Boston Tea Party taught us anything, it’s that people love tea. That cold, December morning, however, almost ruined its reputation forever. By the time the sun rose, coffee — which was seen as an obvious break from stuffy British rule — had become the drink of choice for patriotic

01/27/2015

"“The spontaneously joyful smile is the facial expression most easily recognized from a distance—as far as a hundred metres, researchers say.” Since the late 1800s, scientists have claimed and amassed evidence that the smile is a universal human expression.""

01/27/2015

"The new History Channel mini-series “Sons of Liberty” gives the Hollywood treatment to the revolutionary secret society. So were these freedom fighters brawling hunks, or just concerned patriots?"

The new History Channel mini-series “Sons of Liberty” gives the Hollywood treatment to the revolutionary secret society. So were these freedom fighters brawling hunks, or just concerned patriots?...

01/24/2015

Right up our alley!

Jan 23 2015 Content Review: 'Sons Of Liberty' History, Starting Sunday, Jan. 25 at 9 p.m. (ET) 1/23/2015 2:00 PM Eastern By: Mike Demenchuk Follow History once again takes its “historical fiction” approach — the tack it took with its enjoyable series Vikings — and applies it to the minise…