Der Handschuh (Waterhouse) Der Handschuh (Waterhouse) Der Handschuh ("The Glove") is a composition by Graham Waterhouse. He wrote the setting of Friedrich Schiller's ballad for cello and speaking voice in 2005. It was published in 2007 in Heinrichshofen's Verlag. Graham Waterhouse composed "Der Handschuh" in 2005, as a kind of melodrama in the tradition of spoken narrative to instrumental accompaniment, such as ballads by Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss, a crucial scene of Weber's opera "Der Freischütz" and 20th century settings by Schoenberg, William Walton, Henze and Poulenc's L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant. It is the composer's first major work for the
Waiting for the Barbarians (opera) catching and drying fish, and conserving the little food that has been left to them. He goes to visit his old friend the Cook, who rebukes him for having used the Barbarian girl and for not having been able to understand her at all. He is left alone, wondering even more about who the true barbarians are. On June 3, 2008 a recording of "Waiting for the Barbarians" was released on the Orange Mountain Music label. Waiting for the Barbarians (opera) Waiting for the Barbarians is an opera in two acts composed by Philip Glass, with libretto by Christopher Hampton