sentences:  His operas include "Tales of Malamud" ("Idiots First" (1973) - completion of work begun by Marc Blitzstein; "Karla" (1974); and "Suppose A Wedding" (1996), based on two stories and a play by Bernard Malamud); "Sima" (1976), based on "The Krasovitsky Couple" by David A. Aizman, tr.Edgar H. Lehrman; "Hannah" (1980) based on Midrashic legends, libretto in collaboration with Orel Protopopescu; "The Family Man" (1984), based on story by Mikhail Sholokhov; "The Birthday of the Bank" (1988), in Russian (and English tr.by composer) on Anton Chekhov's "Yubilei"; "New World