The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Musical)

Arturo Ui Soundtrack

Lead sheets: Index of /music/Arturo Ui/Lead Sheats

This is the soundtrack to the musical I wrote for my senior project. All the lyrics are taken from the dialog of the play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. I had about a month to compose the music, and I would have done a lot differently if given more time. But I'm pretty happy with how a lot of it ended up. A lot of the songs had more complex orchestrations that the band and/or the singers never had time to rehearse with. For these songs, I just played piano.

The soundtrack was recorded in a single, 6 hour-long session. All the performers involved are high-schoolers, with varying levels of experience. The jazzier songs are a little on the weak side, and I'm aware of that. The reason for this is that when we recorded them, the drummer was unavailable, and was added in later. This weakened both the time and general feel of these songs. Someday, we might be able to rerecord them.

Some of the best songs, in my opinion, are Whitewash, Never Betray Your Friends, Prologue, and A Misunderstood Man.

This was a huge project, and I was under pretty severe time constraints, but overall I'm pretty with the result. My school put on the production in November. The singers are all members of the drama department, and some of them have never sung before, so they get some slack.

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Well, I am by no means any authority on or even particular fan of musicals, but this strikes me as a very well executed effort indeed. You added a little caveat about the performers into your original post, but they mostly sound quite solid, especially given they're high schoolers like yourself.

Were the recordings done on site in your school or in a separate studio? What might you have done differently had you had more time available to dedicate to the project?

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i like it