{"id":966,"date":"2023-02-01T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/?p=966"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:38:13","slug":"ku-opera-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/ku-opera-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don Henry\u2019 opera, podcast connect KU past and present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When word reached Mount Oread, in October 1937, that \u201cflaxen-haired Don Henry\u201d had been killed in the Spanish Civil War, the sad news of the sophomore\u2019s death touched off a political firestorm that lasted months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legislators, University administrators and Henry\u2019s own father wanted to know how a patriotic Boy Scout from Dodge City, a pious Methodist who\u2019d pondered a church career, could become so radicalized that he\u2019d join communist, socialist and anarchist forces fighting to defend the Spanish government against Nationalists backed by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Though hundreds of Americans, alarmed by the rise of Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco, were fighting in Spain (many in the English-speaking Abraham Lincoln Brigade in which Henry served), some Kansans suspected there was only one explanation for the All-American boy\u2019s revolutionary turn: brainwashing by communists at KU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inquiries by Chancellor Ernest Lindley, the Kansas Board of Regents and conservative Kansas legislators stoked a red scare largely met with \u201ceye-rolling exasperation\u201d on campus, according to an article on kuhistory.com. Reactions ranged from lighthearted pranks (Greek students schemed about donning red shirts and greeting each other as \u201ccomrade,\u201d and a professor arrived in his classroom to find farcical \u201cplans\u201d for bombing Strong Hall scrawled on his chalkboard) to earnest editorials invoking the Salem witch trials. Emporia Gazette Editor William Allen White, 1890, in a University Daily Kansan commentary, dismissed the uproar as \u201ca lot of whoop-te-doo and no evidence &#8230; gossip and tall tales multiplied by ten under the tongues of super-patriots.\u201d Not until the following spring, when a bill demanding $7,500 to root out radicalism at KU failed in the Senate after passing the House, did the issue fade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet it resonates still, according to Frank Nawrot, DMA\u201919, assistant professor of music theory at Wichita State University, who retells fallen student Don Henry\u2019s tragic tale in an inventive chamber opera that blends elements of rock, pop and metal music with cable news tropes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Frank-Nawrot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Frank-Nawrot.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Frank-Nawrot-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Frank Nawrot<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis story felt very similar to ours,\u201d Nawrot says of his rationale for updating a nearly century-old story for a modern audience. \u201cThere was a study done that showed in the midterm elections of 2018, there were more white nationalists running for office in the U.S. than at any other time in our history. What made me want to tell his story was the fact that he was fighting a very similar thing overseas. The things that inspired him were the same things that were inspiring people to get out and take a stand against the white nationalists running for office in the U.S. I found those parallels really interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nawrot wrote the one-act opera, which runs about 70 minutes, as his doctoral dissertation in the School of Music. The lyrics draw on primary source documents, including a press release summarizing the Board of Regents investigation and a letter Henry sent his family from Spain, as well as war poems written by soldiers who served in the conflict. Shakespeare sonnets and Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton\u2019s autobiography also inspired lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Don-Henry-opera.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Don-Henry-opera.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Don-Henry-opera-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/KU-student-1930s.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/KU-student-1930s.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/KU-student-1930s-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/KU-student-1930s-768x478.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A letter Don Henry sent to his parents from Spain (top) and his KU student ID.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most inventive touches is a fictional cable news program, \u201cThe Megan O\u2019Reilly Show,\u201d that introduces each act. The host scoffs at students\u2019 naivete while interviewing a guest whose responses are quotes from the Regents\u2019 release. The show\u2019s disdain for students\u2019 idealism, suspicion of faculty \u201cindoctrination\u201d and communist influence on campus, and warnings about radical socialism reflect the times\u2014Henry\u2019s and ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe reason I put the fake 24-hour news show in was because that\u2019s something I\u2019ve lived with my whole life,\u201d Nawrot says. \u201cI grew up hearing my parents and other family members watch Fox News and CNN and MSNBC and all that stuff. You see it in hospital lobbies and everywhere. It\u2019s really an important part of American culture, and I wanted to use it as a kind of funny but also surreal way to connect the two eras.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, Nawrot released a recording of \u201cDon Henry\u201d as a four-part podcast. Neal Long, g\u201918, DMA\u201921, sings the role of Henry, and Gretchen Pille, g\u201918, sings dual roles as Henry\u2019s mother and Salaria, a nurse serving at the front. Rachael Rule plays Megan O\u2019Reilly, while Nawrot appears as her talk show guest, Duke Prospero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The instrumentation Nawrot employs\u2014orchestral strings and woodwinds mixed with guitar, bass, drums and keyboards\u2014illustrates his approach to making music: Play what you like and hope others like it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMore and more I just write the music I want to hear, which means very much drawing on the music that I like,\u201d says Nawrot, who grew up on hip-hop, rock and metal rather than classical music. \u201cI\u2019ve listened to many more hours of Prince than Mozart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technically \u201cDon Henry\u201d is more of a concept album at this point, Nawrot says. It won\u2019t really be an opera until it gets staged. Someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA hundred years ago to call something an opera that had talking in it would have been scoffed at by many,\u201d he says, noting that there are various terms for large-scale staged works that include dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNowadays we typically call them musicals,\u201d Nawrot adds. \u201cI don\u2019t really care what people call this, as long as they listen to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Listen to \u201cDon Henry\u201d on Frank Nawrot\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/franknawrot.com\/\">website<\/a> or on your favorite podcast platform.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Steven Hill is associate editor of Crimson &amp; Blue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Archival photos courtesy of the National Archives<br>Frank Nawrot photo courtesy of Frank Nawrot<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from KU student Don Henry, who died in the Spanish Civil War, inspired the plot and lyrics of an innovative opera by alumnus Frank Nawrot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26],"tags":[62,58,66],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-tradition","tag-arts","tag-music","tag-school-of-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Don Henry\u2019 opera, podcast connect KU past and present - Crimson &amp; 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