Profile in “The New Yorker” by Adam Gopnik

A few days before our showcase concert, Out of Myself - Songs of Peter Foley, The New Yorker published a nuanced and insightful article about Peter by writer Adam Gopnik. In referring to “Montage” from The Hidden Sky, Gopnik wrote: “To have managed to evoke this discovery, in music that itself metaphorically mirrored the sequence, was a kind of miracle. I was so taken by it that, facing the unbearable truth that he was passing, I pressed Foley to sit for a series of interviews in the summer of his demise, which he bravely undertook despite his physical struggles; I wanted to understand something of the shape of an artist’s life made under the special pressures of the modern musical theatre.“

“Peter’s gift for entwining duet and choral writing, for filling a space with haunting music that was dramatic without necessarily being ‘narrative’—that filled one’s heart without driving a story forward—is exactly what makes it matter.” — Adam Gopnik

Read A Gifted Composer Gone Too Soon by Adam Gopnik, published in The New Yorker, June 1, 2023, or download here.