A Composer’s Education – Part 9
This is Part 9 of a multi-part series of posts. I suggest that you start with Part 1 if you have the time and really want to appreciate the full effulgence.
Epilogue to Iphigenia:
A Composer’s Education – Part 8
This is Part 8 of a multi-part series of posts. I suggest that you start with Part 1 if you have the time and really want to appreciate the full effulgence.
The New York Opening:
A Composer’s Education – Part 7
This is Part 7 of a multi-part series of posts. I suggest that you start with Part 1 if you have the time and really want to appreciate the full effulgence.
Les Girls of Iphigenia:
A Composer’s Education – Part 6
This is Part 6 of a multi-part series of posts. I suggest that you start with Part 1 if you have the time and really want to appreciate the full effulgence.
London:
The plane ride to London was a blast. An excited cast of twenty some gorgeous theatricals hangin’ over the seats, yellin’ and laughin’ back and forth and so excited about flyin’ to London.
A Composer’s Education – Part 4
This is Part 4 of a multi-part series of posts. I suggest that you start with Part 1 if you have the time and really want to appreciate the full effulgence.
One afternoon about a year into my tenure as composer-in-residence at The Public Theater, Joe Papp called me into his office, sat me down and announced, “It’s time you did a work of your own – a musical. As part of your education, I’m going to give you the works of three playwrights. Read their plays and choose one that you think you can convert into a musical.”
A Composer’s Education – Part 3
This is Part 3 of a multi-part series of posts. I suggest that you start with Part 1 if you have the time and really want to appreciate the full effulgence.
The summer before my senior year in college I, on a whim, auditioned for a job in the chorus of the St. Louis Muny Opera, the largest outdoor summer stock musical theater in America. I don’t know why it was called “Opera”, as far as I know they never did anything other than musicals.
A Composer’s Education – Part 2
This is Part 2 of a multi-part series of posts. I suggest that you start with Part 1 if you have the time and really want to appreciate the full effulgence.
As a studied musician I never really had much formal training. Oh, as a kid I learned my drum rudiments, I took a couple of years of piano lessons resisting nearly every practice session with dreams of baseball until my mom regrettably let me stop.