The Met's joint commissioning program with Lincoln Center Theater will conduct a workshop this spring of Scott Wheeler's "The Sorrows of Frederick, " with a libretto by the late Romulus Linney based on his 1960s play.

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"The quality of architecture is invariably high in the religion category, which I think is because communities and religious organizations are often commissioning these projects, " opines Paul Finch, World Architecture Festival program director.

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