Note: I suggest that if you haven’t yet read Miracle Of Faith – Part 1, you start there.  This way you’ll get the whole story.

Installment 2B

The nature of the story and the many angles of discovery took on a largess that was hard to avoid, so we decided not to avoid it but instead to go with it.  No longer did we wish to just write 3 songs, but rather something with much more breadth.

As many of these enhancing ideas developed and I became more and more intrigued with the project, I began to wish I could get more involved as a creator in the project and finally went to Dora and suggested a collaboration.

I didn’t know how she would take the suggestion, but she was relieved because down deep she knew that it might even be bigger than both of us.  She accepted my suggestion and we reformed our working methods and I began to work with her on lyrics.   It was also decided that I would write the music and produce the CD through our record company, Watchfire Music.

That was about six months ago, and in that time we’ve now finished all three songs, recorded two of them and I am hard at work composing and orchestrating instrumental interludes connecting the three songs.  Ultimately we’re looking at a 35-40 minute musical telling of this miracle of faith trilogy.

Recently, that’s what we decided to name the project: Miracle Of Faith.

One of our first decisions was to change the song originally to be sung by Jesus to Mary Magdalene.  I was not particularly enthusiastic about having to write the words that came from the Master’s mouth.  Honestly, I just did not feel up to it.  And so we chose Mary Magdalene – speculated by some more recently to have possibly been the 13^th disciple.  Also, we thought that it would be great to have a female voice in the trilogy.  Also I happen to have a pretty good access to a female voice.

For me, the project has been a total joy to work on.  Nothing stimulates me greater than a classic story to tell.  I learned this about myself in my early days working at the NY Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theater as composer-in-residence.  There I had the great fortune to work on many classics from the pens of Euripides, Shakespeare, Aristophanes, Chekhov, etc., and I saw how profound it could be working on timeless and tried but true works of art.

These stories are timeless because they capture the drama of human existence and have a natural depth that touches the heart and excites the mind no matter what the century.

So the composition of the story is now just about finished and my excitement for the project impels me to blog about the experience.  I hope you’ll stick with me here and follow not only this amazing tale, but also the fun and the inspiration of putting such a project together.  I’ll try to keep you posted twice a week going forward.

Stay tuned for Part 3 – The Boy.