RE: My Luck
This past week was a busy one! Along with MDing The Three Little Pigs with the West Hudson Council for the Arts, we finished up the final project of the first year in the BMI Workshop. I got to work with the incredibly talented Jake Honoroff on a 10-Minute musical called Re: My Luck. We hassled some awesome performers into putting it on its feet, so many thanks to Jeannine Frumess, Patrick Gallagher, and Jon Fuller for their enormous help. Luckily, we have a video of the reading, so enjoy!
Working For The Man Upstairs
Another (semi) song! This one’s a little old now, but it’s a favorite of mine.
This was a collaboration with the very funny Jim Merritt, a fellow member of the BMI workshop. The song was our submission for an assignment. We were to write a charm song for a musical adaptation of “It’s A Wonderful Life.” This song is for Clarence, the guardian angel, when he gets to Earth. Perhaps it’s not the most appropriate music for Clarence, but it’s a heck of a lot of fun. And I’m particularly fond of the piano part.
Very Last
Here it is, another full-length song! I heard recently that there are only four real phone booths left in New York City. It must be really depressing for those booths to see all their friends disappearing like that, so I gave one a voice. And a cowbell. Lyrics and MP3 download after the break!
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The Giving Tree, Part 1 (Demo)
This has been a pretty hectic week, as it turns out. So, today’s ditty is another non-traditional one; sorry. This one is actually from over a year ago, from one of my composition classes. It’s kind of a musical theater/art piece setting of The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein. Today I finally got around to making the demo of the first section. All the instruments are kind of cheap and fake-sounding, but they get the point across.
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Gay For You
Special treat! Today’s ditty is a full-length song! I’d like to thank Vassar College for giving me the fodder for this spritely work.
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