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Been a race of deadlines this month, and I’m not fit to run. All fun projects, though:
Wrote a couple of “birdsongs” for 13P playwright Erin Courtney’s Map of Virtues, which ran at the Williamstown Theatre Festival this last weekend. Tried a few new things with these two tracks - both a’capella tunes sung by a narrating Bird Statue, both very open form to fit with the pre-written free verse lyrics. My friend Vella Lovell - an incredibly talented singer and performer - played the Bird Statue, and I’m excited to hear how it all turned out for her and the show.
A week or so ago, Melissa Lusk and I performed Song Cycle #25, (I Was) Accounting on You, for a show that was broadcast live on WNYC and the web. (The footage is now archived on the WNYC site - we start about 42 minutes in or so.) The song is a collaboration between Steve Stout and I for The Civilians’s current project, You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce.
Fat Camp is back up and in full swing. The last of my killer deadlines attack tonight, as we prep for a workshop that starts later this month. I’ll be up all night. Really looking forward to having the changes go public - the show continues to grow and improve.
Returned to the city on Sunday. Got some writing done upstate on vacation, but nothing recorded, which means this week’s Song Cycle entry will be up late (tonight!). It also means that I have a plenty of inspiration for the next few weeks - And that I hope not to be late again any time soon.
