I've chosen two parts of a musical (titled The Hourglass Mind) I very recently sent to a competition and is scheduled to be performed in the fall. I find it sums up my ability and style...insane.
The musical is about an 18 year old schizophrenic boy(the characters name is NAME), who begins to have psychological delusions of an imaginary "soul doctor" named Rayman Minz who offers to "fix" the "problems" he has. Name begins loosing touch with reality and is taken to a psychiatric care facility by his mother
SCENE 2-"fix-er-up"
In this scene Dr. Minz gives Name an in-home brain surgery on stage, blood and gore and everything, as this is happening the music is playing, and they are singing over the sounds of bone-saws and medical drills.
The intro to this piece simply seeks to set the mood and make the listener uncomfortable. I used implied chords to maintain an open sound and yet add a certain fullness to the quality of the section. after the two fermatas, I depart dramatically from this almost early romantic introduction to a very waltz like harmony, as the piece progresses and the "brain surgery" progresses the music gets more and more unstable, harmonically, to mirror Name's growing mental instability. The end of this piece is my homage to Gershwin after whom musicals declined.
INTERMISSION
This piece was composed to ensure the audience gains no mental rest, so as to facilitate the state of things to come in Act 2. I worked many hours on this piece and feel it's perhaps the most insane, but I welcome any criticism.
I'm eager to see where your insight might take me.
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