Meg
Role: composer
Date: March 2024
Collaborating with violist Katya Barmotina, I created an electroacoustic score that featured heavy rock music, elegiac solo viola melodies, “bardcore” pastiches, and modern takes on Renaissance musical styles.
Meg flips the script on Henry VIII and the Tudors. Daughter to the famous and beloved Sir Thomas More, Meg feels certain that she’ll follow in his steps as a brilliant scholar, with village idiot Will Roper as her trophy husband. But, as family secrets come to light, Meg is forced to question the life her father has cut out for her. Vogel’s comic and cutting feminist vision questions how we construct histories, and who we leave out of them. (Columbia University School of the Arts)