Note: I suggest that if you haven’t yet read Miracle Of Faith – Parts 1-8 yet you start there.  This way you’ll get the whole story.

The Orchestrations:

For a couple of decades I worked on Broadway and wrote music for many Plays and Musicals.  During that time I also wrote the soundtracks for a number of movies both in Hollywood and for the Monday Night Movies of the Week on television.

I enjoyed the work and learned to underscore the emotions of the scenes and write the music reflecting the moments on screen.  For Broadway I developed a reputation as the guy people went to when they wanted to underscore their plays – an art form in the theater that really had not been explored all that much.  For a decade I was able to work on a number of Broadway shows and develop that side of my work.  I was nominated for the Tony Award twice for my underscoring work in plays in the Best Composer For A Musical category because there was no category for what I was doing.

Those two shows were Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor and William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing the longest running Shakespeare play ever to run on Broadway.

So when Dora and I were in the middle of the writing of the three songs I decided to imagine the scenes around the three songs and essentially score the scenes of my imagination.

I had also begun to develop this idea in a previous Julia Wade CD entitled, Deep Waters, another 3-song CD separated by extensive orchestrations.  There’s no movie to watch when you listen to the music, so I’ve decided to call it a Musical Of The Imagination.  In short, the songs give you enough information to imagine the scenes of the orchestra sections and the titles of the 4 orchestrations set the scene.

In my own imagination I can tell you what’s happening during every beat of every measure of the music.  I thought that I might describe in a paragraph or two those scenes as I saw/heard them, but then decided that I would be stripping you, the listener, of your own experience in your own imagination.

I guess it’s sort of like if Stravinsky took you through each moment in his Rite Of Spring and told you what he was thinking.  I’d rather just listen to his music and get lost in my own dreaming.

So I’m going to leave it at that.

Here are the four pieces.  Dream on …

The Opening – Orchestra

The Sermon – Orchestra

The Miracle – Orchestra

Celebration – Orchestra