found: Tea party, 2002:t.p. (libretto, Erik Johns)
found: The tender land [SR] p1990:booklet, p. 3 (libretto by Horace Everett) booklet, p. 13 (To write the libretto, Copland turned to Erik Johns, who had until then pursued a dual career as a painter and dancer, and who for this project took the pen name Horace Everett, so as to separate his work as librettist from his other pursuits)
found: New York Times, Nov. 18, 2001(Erik Johns, 74, librettist of Copland's 'Tender land'; d. Dec. 11, 2001, East Fishkill, N.Y.; b. Horace Eugene Johnston in Los Angeles)