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  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Jul 3, 2024
  • 1 min read

Well, if people see that first movement as like a redux of Lilburn, that's probably true. I played the 3rd trombone part of the Aotearoa Overture and Finlandia by Sibelius. He studied with Ralph Vaughan-Williams, who was a Ravel student. See, I can quote my whakapapa in classical music extremely thoroughly! The style of music that I write really goes back to 18th century France and Gretry imo. Most would say Rameau, but he invented ET, so he's like the enemy to me. I love musical comedy precisely because it's spoken as well as sung.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Jul 03, 2024

For Peter Walls: I see opera comique and zarzuela as being qualitatively different to ballad operas and singspiel. It's that combination of music, gesture and voice which is different, and writing songs for characters, rather than appropriating tunes (like in England). It's ironic that Sullivan studied in Germany. It's very light, though: I hope my serious music is more serious than Sullivan's.

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Jul 03, 2024
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Sondheim says in Finishing the Hat that his type of characters are more than two-dimensional, but he stops short of saying that they're three-dimensional.

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