Many musicals nowadays don’t utilize overtures. I miss them. Originally used to alert an audience that the performance was starting and that they should go ahead and sit the hell down, the orchestra would breeze through some of the musical themes of the show, usually completely at the leisure of whomever the orchestrator was. (Note […]
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I’m not sure there’s any torture greater than listening to your child practice the piano. Well, maybe violin. I’ll admit that listening to a child practice violin could be worse. I mean, at least our piano is in tune. (Mostly.) My daughter is eight years old and she has been studying the piano for four […]
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There’s an old theater adage that “no one leaves humming the set.” I contend it’s equally true that “no one leaves humming the syncopated, accidental-filled, sixteenth-note-y vamp.” As more new musical theater is being written by amazingly talented, expert pianists (who are often non-singers), increasing attention is being paid to the accompaniment figure, which is being written first, at […]
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