(was: wallowing and questions)

Hi, Pete!

You've been quiet for a while? Good to hear
from you!

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, "ambassadorbob" wrote:
[snip]

> So I guess the only hope is for
> someone to produce a really successful TV commercial or musical
> theater production or something like that in a xenharmonic
> construction.

Such synchronicity! Exactly what I was thinking
yesterday as I sat in contemplation: what we
_ really_ need in the way of microtonal education
is just this: A smash-hit microtonal musical comedy!
ON Broadway!

So ... the next step, I thought, is to see which of
the MMM crowd will rise to the challenge. Now,
I write truly awful lyrics for musicals, but haven't
got a plot bone in my body. (Such short stories as
I do write are more "situational".) So what's a good
story to pinch?

(I'm moved to suggest "Pride & Prejudice". It's the
middle-class theatre classic of our generation; no
more Hamlet; no more Twilight of the Gods; no more
Dickens reading his stories of bathos; let's all hark
back to a time of genteel, rustic simplicity,
nostalgically reimagined as both beautiful and natural.
And let's for goodness sake ignore the mud in the
back yard where the chickens scratch and the pigs
wallow ...! Or maybe (for comic effect), not ...)

As to the music, I'm sure there are at least 50
members lurking on this list right now who can write
a singable microtonal musical comedy tune - right?
And I know of a few who can orchestrate any darn
thing.

Who wants to play?

Regards,
Yahya

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Hi Yahya,

Thanks!

I'm a bit preoccupied with (slightly more?) pragmatic considerations
at the moment, but I may have some fragments to develop before too
long.

My warring pop sensibilities and revolutionary and avante-garde
sympathies seem to be nearing a (second?) reconciliation.

I started on Beneath The Underdog, Charles Mingus's autobiog, but I
haven't got very far at all (!) with it, especially as there are no
songs, yet.

But I'm glad you took my would-be sarcasm to another note! I'm
trying to fish a song out of my head, as I write this!

Revelation in the Courthouse Park vs. Porgy and Bess? Reminds me of
something I saw on Mike Watt's webpage, years ago. Yow! Might be
cool!

Cheers,

Pete

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Yahya Abdal-Aziz"
<yahya@m...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, Pete!
>
> You've been quiet for a while? Good to hear
> from you!
>
>
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, "ambassadorbob" wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > So I guess the only hope is for
> > someone to produce a really successful TV commercial or musical
> > theater production or something like that in a xenharmonic
> > construction.
>
> Such synchronicity! Exactly what I was thinking
> yesterday as I sat in contemplation: what we
> _ really_ need in the way of microtonal education
> is just this: A smash-hit microtonal musical comedy!
> ON Broadway!
>
> So ... the next step, I thought, is to see which of
> the MMM crowd will rise to the challenge. Now,
> I write truly awful lyrics for musicals, but haven't
> got a plot bone in my body. (Such short stories as
> I do write are more "situational".) So what's a good
> story to pinch?
>
> (I'm moved to suggest "Pride & Prejudice". It's the
> middle-class theatre classic of our generation; no
> more Hamlet; no more Twilight of the Gods; no more
> Dickens reading his stories of bathos; let's all hark
> back to a time of genteel, rustic simplicity,
> nostalgically reimagined as both beautiful and natural.
> And let's for goodness sake ignore the mud in the
> back yard where the chickens scratch and the pigs
> wallow ...! Or maybe (for comic effect), not ...)
>
> As to the music, I'm sure there are at least 50
> members lurking on this list right now who can write
> a singable microtonal musical comedy tune - right?
> And I know of a few who can orchestrate any darn
> thing.
>
> Who wants to play?
>
> Regards,
> Yahya
>
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