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First journal entry, to discuss my latest project

Mon Dec 24, 2007, 8:05 PM
What no one yet knows about me is that I sometimes compose music. It's a skill currently in its infancy, but hopefully I'll expand on it soon through classes.

Anyway, I've decided to start on a new project: Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, the opera.

You may ask, "Didn't Andrew Lloyd Webber already do that?" My answer is, "Not really." You see, while the style of this piece of musical theatre is rather operatic, and while it is often referred to as a "rock opera", it is still musical theatre. You don't see ALW's POTO playing at the Metropolitan Opera or Covent Garden precisely because that is not what he intended for it to be. Besides, he took the story Gaston Leroux wrote and made enough changes in the story for it to be his own.

To my knowledge, no one has yet made an actual opera of Leroux's work. Now, opera-writing is not something simply for great masters like Mozart, Puccini, Gounod, and everyone in between; new operas are being written all the time, even today. One of my music professors in college, in fact, will be premiering her one-act opera at my college very soon.

I've only just begun this process. I would be grateful for feedback and encouragement, as this is the biggest project I've ever even thought about tackling.

Thank you all, and happy holidays!

  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: Rachmaninov's "Prelude in C minor"
  • Reading: Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera&quo
  • Watching: Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd"

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