The husband of Verna Avey composed how many symphonies?
Troubled Island Troubled Island is an American opera in three acts composed by William Grant Still, with a libretto begun by poet Langston Hughes and completed by Verna Arvey. She married the composer following their collaboration.
Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki ( ; ] ; born 23 November 1933) is a Polish composer and conductor. "The Guardian" has called him Poland's greatest living composer. Among his best known works are his "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima", "Symphony No. 3", "St. Luke Passion", "Polish Requiem", "Anaklasis", "Utrenja", four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works.