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Article: ROBERT J., THE COMPOSER 'MORNING PRO MUSICA' HOST PENS SUITE FOR A BUTTERFLY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 6, 1987
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As is the case with most things, Robert J. Lurtsema has
quite a story to tell about how he came to write the music for "The
Monarch Suite," which will be performed at Sanders Theater,
Cambridge, tomorrow night.
It seems that the indomitable host of "Morning Pro Musica" --
the popular classical music program heard seven days a week on
WGBH-FM (89.7) -- received an unexpected proposal in 1976 from a
biology professor at Amherst College.
The professor, Lincoln Brower, had made a film on the
migration patterns and life cycle of the monarch butterfly, and
asked -- no, insisted -- that Lurtsema compose the music for it.
Lurtsema was astonished, as well he should have been. He
barely ...