DURHAM — Robert Ward, grand old man of American opera and a major figure in North Carolina music since the 1960s, has died.
Ward
passed early Wednesday morning at his apartment in a Durham retirement
home, after a period of failing health. He was 95 years old.
Ward
remains best known for composing the music to the opera version of
Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1962. He
also wrote another seven operas, seven symphonies and numerous choral
works and chamber-music pieces. more