What We’re Listening To

In my last post, I discussed concept material and sense-response work. Another form of this material is playlists – burned CD’s and weblinks to music sites that get passed among the creative team like cigarettes among inmates. Again, these tracks are concept material – most aren’t right or won’t make it into the final production. Their purpose is to inspire…

The below list starts out with the intellectual melancholy of Sting and moves on to the elegant pulp of Vitamin String Quartet. Dwelling there for a while, it drifts into rivers of darker strings and casts-off to explore new frontiers. Trading these tracks with each other is a kind of conversation we’re having about the ways we connect to the play and how we plan to express that on stage. I have posted some of them here so you might have the opportunity to listen in too.

Shape Of My Heart
Sting

Yellow
Vitamin String Quartet

Heroes (String Quartet Tribute to David Bowie)
Vitamin String Quartet

All I Want Is You (String Quartet Tribute to U2)
Vitamin String Quartet

Time After Time
Vitamin String Quartet

Clocks
Vitamin String Quartet

Hallelujah
Vitamin String Quartet

Fast Fall (Original Composition Inspired by the Music of Paramore)
Vitamin String Quartet

Dark Waltz
Hayley Westenra

Adagio For Strings, Op. 11
Barber

Into Dust
Mazzy Star

Devil's Dance Floor
Flogging Molly

Come Here Boy
Imogen Heap

Ghost Story
Sting

In Time
Mark Collie

Heroes
Peter Gabriel

Games Without Frontiers
Massive Attack feat. Peter Gabriel

Symphony 10 Mov. 1
Shostakovich

Klingon Battle
Jerry Goldsmith