2025 Thoughts
✦ January
The thing about creating an integrated work of art
I began scoring the "exponential growth" number for MELISANDE this morning. This will be a complicated piece because
MELISANDE
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
"I Want"
I started scoring the "I Want" song this week. Originally I had meant it as a fairly straightforward
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
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
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
Small changes change everything
I said I would tell you about one of the small changes I made to MELISANDE, so here you go
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
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
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
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
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
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
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
"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
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Taking Yourself Seriously
First of all, the Queen's song is scored. I need to go through it as a pianist and
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
I rewrote the song...
It was actually very easy, once it came down to understanding what was wrong with it.
Also, I talked to
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
"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
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
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