A few days ago, the 2009 Minnesota Fringe app went live. I’ve got until January 30th at 5pm to put in an application, which probably means I’ll frantically have Amy drop it off at lunch time on January 30th. Last year’s show, Tipping the Bucket, went really dang well. I was proud of my work, Anthony pushed me into a new layer of stage work (I guess you could call it that), and audiences dug it.
About this time last year, combined with audience reactions from the 2007 show I Hate Kenny G, I asked readers what I should write about for the next show.
Well, readers, I’m appealing to you again.
But this time, you’ve got two questions to answer.
I’ve started working with a new way of writing–it started last month for the music-based Rockstar show. And I came up with the idea to take a piece of classical music and write a new melody–a story–to it. I let the music dictate the content, and admittedly started with an easy one: a political piece about Sarah Palin, set to Ravel’s Bolero and Greig’s In the Hall of the Mountain King. And the audience dug it. They grooved on it hard.
I’m going to start writing before I know if I’m in the Fringe. This type of piece is really a choreography, and requires much more work. So, blog readers…
1. Are there any pieces of classical, strictly instrumental music (my definition is loose–medieval up until the jazz age) that you think would work to choreograph words on top? My thought (and it could be a wrong thought) is that pieces with simple melodies yet variances in time and emotions would work best.
2. Do you have a strong opinion on using the work of one composer (for instance, if I hypothetically wanted to focus on Aaron Copland, the combination of Fanfare for the Common Man, the Rodeo suite, Down a Country, and the Appalachian Spring Suite works out to be 58:25), or using multiple?
3. Same question as last year: what would you like to see me write about?
Please comment away, or let me know outside the blogosphere. I’d love to have decided upon some music and a topic before I turn in an app.
Thanks,
the little monkey
