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Tools Composers Love: Faves from the Pros

Jul 15, 2019 | 9 |

Wondering what music tools and tech the pros use? Here are a few tools composers love as given by my composer friends and colleagues.

Incubating New Musicals at the Madison New Works Lab

Jun 13, 2019 | 2 |

In the Madison New Works Lab, Mark Evan Chimsky and Zev Burrows learned how to work with a team and how that team responds to a musical work-in-progress.

Sweeney Todd

May 31, 2019 | 0 |

Stephen Sondheim, writing at the height of his powers, makes audiences anticipate almost every second of the show that something scary is about to happen.

Wicked the Musical’s Groundbreaking Score – Act 1

May 9, 2019 | 0 |

The score of the musical sensation Wicked is groundbreaking because it brilliantly melds pop idioms with sophisticated musical theater song construction.

As every musical theater writer knows, the “I want” song is central to our craft. The stage may be full of people singing and dancing, but the I Want song tells the audience, “Watch this one. This is the important one. This is the one with the superhuman passion.”