BLUE BAROQUE combines elements from nearly every discipline: art, music, theater, chemistry, biology, geology, physics, philosophy, history, anthropology, sociology, and literature. It is a Schuloper, or school opera, in the style of a Brechtian educational drama designed for teaching political lessons. School operas were musicals designed to broaden the knowledge of scholars. These works are rich in realism and challenge political and didactic, as well as physical and biological, thermodynamic interpretations.

Since David has Parkinson’s disease BLUE BAROQUE is now performed by David’s colleague and friend, Gerry Prody, about whom David remarks:

“Gerry is a skilled soprano, an actress who assumes roles with ease and
grace, a great leading lady.”

Gerry Prody is a professor in the chemistry department at WWU. Her Ph.D. in biochemistry is also from UC Davis. She and David share a common life’s pathway. Like David, she is a trained musician and has toured Europe on numerous occasions as a solo soprano. She has also appeared in David’s Gilbert and Sullivan productions at various venues. Gerry describes David as:

“The irritant catalyst at the center of both Fairhaven and Huxley Colleges;
an accomplished scientist and artist; I would be his elve, his comrade.”

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