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Some people know why they got into Harvard. There’s a kid upstairs who summers at the Sorbonne sketching tourists and that obnoxious guy in section has five patents pending. But if I had to take a guess as to why Brian Ross Lowdermilk, Class of 2005, was invited up to the big H, I’d say it had something to do with writing a new, full-length musical called Transient Days...
...song cycle progresses, Lowdermilk proves quite competent in the language of musical theater and exhibits an expressive musical vocabulary. R&B stylings and complex song structures testify to able musicianship. If Lowdermilk adds stylistic variety and distinctiveness to this tunes, he could create memorable musical theater...
...songs stretch too long and one sounds much like the next. In the torrent of words, there is little sense of character arc or development. The style of song is too static to convey the changing lives of the characters. It’s as if Lowdermilk wanted to express a hundred personally compelling ideas, but never paused to find the essential ones, let alone compose a memorable chorus...
...last semester, Lowdermilk left Harvard to transfer to the prestigious Berklee College of Music. It cannot be doubted that he will compose many future works, and they will certainly merit attention...
One’s first large-scale production is often intensely personal, with little room for objectivity. Now that Lowdermilk has proven his ability, he can turn his musical talent toward new horizons and broaden his aim to include subjects that may test his range...