Some ancient Greece with a new twist

[Sherry C]

Hi David,

Thanks for sharing this piece. I know the time period is 5th century Greece, but this is piece - and the entire work of yours - is all "renaissance" in the sense of bringing together a wide ranging amalgam of sources and styles!

Methinks th'art having much fun putting this together - hopefully at least as much fun as I had reading the description and then listening to "Lycon My Husband." I love the modal effect, and your instrumentation elicits - to my humble mind - the appropriate atmosphere. Will you be having live musicians for this performance? I can't help but think but how cool it would be to play in your orchestra pit

Well done, sir!

ttfn,
Sherry

[dj]

Hi, Sherry:

I would be delighted to have you in our orchestra pit -- but we don't have one!

Unfortunately, our theatre is really too small to allow any live music bigger than one or two musicians, so we rely, as in this case, mainly on pre-recorded stuff.

We've used 5-7 piece orchestras for a couple of shows, but at the expense of much onstage space and most of our wing-space. We do have a 3-manual WurliTzer concert organ that we have hauled out and used a couple of times, notably for our adaptation of Charles Dickens's The Chimes, which is all organ and chime music.

While not as "live", at least pre-recorded music is predictable.

And, thanks for your comments on the piece. I'm not sure how a paying audience will react to it -- modality is not as common in show tunes as it once was (say, 2,400 years ago.)

D

[dj]

Well, thank goodness for ego!


In putting together a new score this my Lysistrata musical from last year, I found that I had, somehow, lost the piece I posted in this thread.


I only had very early versions of it.


So, now I was able to get it back, thanks to the "archival" nature of the forum.


Disaster averted!


David

[Sherry C]

Hi David,


Glad that worked out for you - I've had that happen as well!


ttfn,
Sherry