The thing about doing good work
...is that you know when it is good.
And when the work is good, you don't spend a
Small changes change everything
I said I would tell you about one of the small changes I made to MELISANDE, so here you go
I want a space for people who are serious about making things
First of all, I have discovered that I can make minor edits in MELISANDE even as I do everything else
Why am I writing this music specifically?
I had sort of forgotten that MELISANDE was meant to be a student theater piece.
Over the past few months
More thoughts on musicals, and a few thoughts on keeping an audience's attention
MELISANDE update! The Queen's song is final-first-drafted, which is to say that all of the musical elements except
"musical openings are like chess openings, they set the conditions of the board"
Okay.
So.
You might ask, if you were of an inquisitive frame of mind, why theater gets nary a mention
Taking Yourself Seriously
First of all, the Queen's song is scored. I need to go through it as a pianist and
I rewrote the song...
It was actually very easy, once it came down to understanding what was wrong with it.
Also, I talked to
"oh, I get it, it's the failure mode of humanism"
The thing about writer's block is that it's a signal that something you've written
How I am adapting E. Nesbit's "Melisande"
Now that I have written about what happens when adaptation goes wrong, I might as well start writing about how