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Dutton is a musician, performer, writer of folk-rock operas, amateur filmmaker and the force behind a group of dancers, actors and musicians called The Secret Commonwealth. His first "opera" was The Changeling and the Bear, and the soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy, according to Riverstone co-owner Ken Wesley. Dutton has written two other operas since then, which have been staged in Somerset, Richmond and Northern Kentucky.
- 1 2 3 Nance, Kevin (1994-12-11). "Somerset Man Tries Another Ambitious Work; Daniel Dutton Now Writing 4-Part Opera". Lexington Herald-Leader . p. H1.
Daniel Dutton is back. The self-taught composer-writer-painter from Somerset is best known for The Stone Man, an uncategorizeable musical stage work produced by the Kentucky Opera in Louisville that toured throughout the state five years ago. Now, Dutton, 35, is in the midst of a project that is even harder to pigeonhole and far more ambitious: a four-part, eight-hour, pop-folk opera called The Secret Commonwealth.
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- ↑ "Dan Dutton: Ballads of the Barefoot Mind". 21c Museum. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
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- Tagami, Ty, "MUSICAL AMBASSADOR - MAKER OF RARE JAPANESE LUTE WILL PLAY IN SOMERSET" , Lexington Herald, 20 February 1999. p. A1: "Ohashi came to Somerset to visit friends and to perform with local artist Daniel Dutton, whom he met in Japan two years ago. Dutton traveled to Japan in 1997 with a Japanese couple living in Somerset, playing old Appalachian ballads on dulcimer and guitar for a Japanese audience. Dutton, who is the artistic director and musical composer for the opera, invited Ohashi to come to Kentucky and open the show."
- Unk, "'SECRET' GETTING EASIER TO FIGURE OUT", Lexington Herald, 14 February 1999, p. J3: "Daniel Dutton hopes people will leave the world premiere of Love & Time - the third in his series of four opera-modern dance productions called The Secret Commonwealth saying: "I kind of understand what was happening there." The Somerset-based director/composer knows he has tested audiences with the first two chapters: The Changeling and the Bear and The Road.
