Perspective on Collaboration: – #2 “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime!”: Okay…I changed the name of this installment. Collaboration IS like having a child though, but it can also be like being locked up in a jail cell. You’re gonna be working intensely on the project for a long time and you’re gonna see and hear from the same people over and over again. So you [...]
Perspective on Collaboration – #1: “It’s a marriage”: Collaboration is marriage. You better be ready to commit. Musicals take a long time to write. Plus there are revisions. LOTS of meetings. Lots of give and take.
Everything is open to scrutiny. It’s important to give and receive comment. How one talks about a project is as important as what one says. I like to [...]
Rules for a collaboration…or HOW TO…: I’m looking for a collaborator, someone to work with on projects. At the moment, I have one particular project in mind, though a more long term collaboration across several projects would be great. (Think Kander & Ebb, Stravinsky & Diaghilev, Damon and Runyon!) Unfortunately the three collaborators who I’ve had the pleasure of working with, [...]
Why the hell am I writing an opera?: It gets dangerous when I don’t have a project to work on, one that engages from within.
I’m at that spot again: What to compose next?
There are jazz charts. But there are ALWAYS jazz charts to be composed. There’s still so much to be learned in charting.
There’s a possible cello quartet to write, but that’s still [...]