Opera Formatting for Bill Evans: An American Story

Many Finale versions ago, Bill Evans, retired piano professor at WTAMU wrote an opera called "An American Story". L. Vartebedian wrote the lyrics to this opera about a mining town in Colorado. Bill Evans was using Finale to write the music but needed someone to save him time formatting and printing parts. This was a good experience for me to get use to larger scores on Finale and to become more familiar with inserting lyrics. The orchestra instrumentation for the opera is rather small: Vln 1 & 2, Clarinet, Cello, Bass, Piano, and Percussion. Here is a sample of the score for the Overture to "An American Story" by L. Vartebedian and Bill Evans.