Oliver Knussen

October 12, 2018, 11:00 pm

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Oliver Knussen (Photo: Mark Allan/BBC)
Oliver Knussen (Photo: Mark Allan/BBC)

Composer Oliver Knussen passed away earlier this year at the age of 66. He spoke with Studs Terkel in 1988, around the time Chicago Opera theater presented Where the Wild Things Are, Knussen’s opera based on the children’s book by Maurice Sendack.