Bitching about the opera people

Seriously! It's like they expect me to write every aria for a 70-piece orchestra with distended vowels and stolid tempi. Precisely the reason I asked Dave A to collaborate: to poke at all that self-seriousness. - It's honestly going to be a fairly small group based on the general interest.

Like, maybe the Troubles plus Chelsea's band and a few other jazz people.

I'd love to do it with a fuller orchestra, but even then we're still talking a Broadway-type band of about 25. This type of music is inherently monophonic/heterophonic, and sounds crap with endless orchestration and all those added homophonic things. It'll be a bit like Pan's Preludes, but in minor keys. -

They're also totally ignoring that it's a dialogue piece. Surtitles are necessary for entirely sung-through music in English, as people's ears simply switch off, but I'm sure that y'all were able to follow the words in that Carousel tape which I uploaded. The use of melisma in the settings is to echo those things in Arabic musics.

So, yeah, there's some singing and incidental music, but it's probably not going to have constant underscoring like Sweeney Todd or some Iraq war action movie. There's a lot of dialogue to get through as well. Some stories might have a lot of music, and others might have very little.