Finished Scene 9 08/10/2008
Just a quick update- I finished Scene 9. The mezzo's aria proved to be kind of difficult to write, but finally today I got into a pattern for it and finished it. I'm really proud of it! It's way better than the two other drafts that I deleted, heh. So, that means the big, dramatic turning point of the opera has been composed... Only two more scenes! As of now, Magnum Opus is 51 minutes and 25 seconds long. Maybe I won't get to an hour and a half after all, but that might be for the best anyway. CommentsLeave a Reply | CategoriesAll I've re-thought what I'm doing with the song cycle. It's going to be slightly more Rorem-esque in scope than I had originally planned, but I think it'll still go fairly quickly.
The song cycle is now called "Love is Not the Last Room," a line from the last poem of the set. It will be for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, with a piano accompaniment. Each singer will have 3 solos. There is also a finale quartet, and there will be an intro and a few transitions with various groupings of the singers based on material from the quartet. All in all there will be 18 movements, but many are around a minute long. I have three pieces done so far- "Oh, Every Day that Dawns" (soprano... previously written, but recycled for this), "A Cry" (soprano), "Singers" (tenor). I'm also pretty much done with the vocal line for the final quartet- it just needs some tweaking and for the piano part to be fleshed out. Several other songs are sketched out a bit, too. More details once I have them!  The BlogHere I'll write about what I'm working on, how it's going, what I'm listening to, or anything that seems to pop into my head. ArchivesAugust 2010 |
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