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...Brian R. Lowdermilk ‘05 surrounds himself with words and music. The walls of his room are papered with quotes, a keyboard stands in one corner and a poster advertising a musical hangs upon the closet door. Upon closer examination, Lowdermilk’s name appears on the poster under the words “music and lyrics by.” The poster advertises Lowdermilk’s original musical, Transient Days. While exploring a love triangle between three teenagers, the show deals with adolescent sexuality and the constant struggle that teenagers undergo to find themselves during...
...past May. The entire show is sung and it is performed against a black stage. The original cast consisted of two men and one woman, although the roles are not gender dependant. “The plot is secondary to the way the story is told,” Lowdermilk explains. “The story emerges from the three characters’ commentary on their situation...
While the story itself is fictional, Lowdermilk did draw from personal experience when writing some of the songs, many of which were not composed specifically for the show. He likens the effect of the songs to pointilism, with each song a separate but integral part. Lowdermilk’s next project, again with Altman, is a piece about teen suicide that is loosely based on Camus’ Caligula...
When asked about his influences, Lowdermilk names Jason Robert Brown and his off-Broadway musical Songs for a New World. Other influences have been William Finn, David Shire, Jonathan Larson, Stephen Sondheim and bad country music. “I truly believe in musical theatre and the shows that are coming out now allow us to see its future,” he says of his favorite medium. “And I’m in love with...
Died. Walter Clay Lowdermilk, 85, land and water conservationist; in Berkeley, Calif. As a forestry professor in Nanking, China, in the 1920s, Lowdermilk concluded that the vast wastelands of northern China were a product of careless exploitation of agricultural resources. In a vigorous lifelong crusade to combat what he termed "man-induced erosion," Lowdermilk oversaw numerous U.S. conservation programs over the years and served as consultant to the governments of Mexico, Japan and Yugoslavia. His pet project was the early agricultural development of Israel, where his suggestion that water from the Jordan River be diverted to irrigate the desert...