Revisiting the Trunk: "You Must Learn"

Posted on Oct 5, 2007 | 0 comments
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Throughout the year I’ve been occasionally posting recordings of songs from my earlier musical The Ghost of Wu. Today’s installment is the song “You Must Learn”, in which an ambitious mother lectures her naïve daughter, a concubine, in the ways of the Emperor’s court. This song is probably the most Sondheim-derivative thing...

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Back to the Trunk: "Welcome Home"

Posted on Jun 8, 2007 | 0 comments
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Time to roll out another song from The Ghost of Wu. Composed in the summer or fall of 2002, Welcome Home is probably my favorite song from Wu; certainly the one I’m most proud of for both music and lyrics. It’s an ensemble number for womens chorus. Following a tumultuous journey from her village to the Emperor’s court, Wu is met by gentle chorus...

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More From the Trunk

Posted on Mar 14, 2007 | 0 comments
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And now, another song from The Ghost of Wu. “The Ways of the Young” is a bit more of a comedy number, although I’m afraid it might only be funny on paper. By early in Act II of The Ghost of Wu, Wu Chao has succeeded in becoming Empress, having removed the Emperor’s first wife from the picture. But she is not satisfied. She’s...

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Songs In My Trunk

Posted on Mar 8, 2007 | 1 comment
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Since I’ve been crowing about writing a musical, and have nothing to show for it yet, I thought it would be fun to blow the dust off of some songs from my last musical The Ghost of Wu. The first song I’m presenting is maybe the most, uh, presentable, in that it’s just a song. Many of the others are elaborate ensemble numbers or involve bits of...

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