The Musical

I’m a little worried about this musical that we’re putting on in September. The choir has been working on it for over a year, but because of various distractions and other commitments, we’re still pretty much at square one. When Jen was over here last year, she wrote a ton of great arrangements of the Karl Jenkins pieces that the musical is based on. The choir has partially learned all of them but are still a very long way from being ready. Plus, the choir has quite a few new members this year who are quite inexperienced, so they’re all just starting this music now! On top of all of that, these Jenkins pieces are just for interludes and “dance” sequences between scenes – there’s also a bunch of music during the actual text part, which hasn’t even been written yet! And if that wasn’t enough, the script hasn’t even been finalized yet!!!

Anyway, tonight I started writing some of the music that is going to be going on during the text part. This is actually a great opportunity for me to hone my composing skills! I don’t want to work too far ahead right now because I first want to check with Mrs. Venter that I’m on the right track. I also have to figure out what songs will work with guitar accompaniment (because I’m no actor) and write the parts. I certainly have my work cut out for me (which is good, I like being busy). I think though, we need to aim to have all the Jenkins pieces learned and memorized with confidence and all rest of the music at least written and partially learned by the end of June. There’s still a bunch of “choreography” and “dance” still to learn, but if the music is solid we’ll have a good foundation going forward.