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...Rybeck, an accomplished pianist and songwriter in his own right, agreed with the necessity for both artistic passion and daring, offering as advice a line from T.S. Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday”: “Teach us to care and not to care...
...subject of pop music, Rybeck noted an increasing trend of pop-theater hybrid shows à la Mamma Mia or Movin’ Out, counseling students to become savvy in this new crossover style. Prince insisted that such changes were only evolutions in a perennially relevant art form, saying that musical theater was still “part of our American heritage...
...songs take the character from one emotional place to another,” she explained, as opposed to their more emotionally static pop counterparts. “A pop lyric is not written to be acted.” But with the birth of hybrid musicals attempting just that, Rybeck rejoined, “a new technique is being born right now on Broadway...
Despite these forays into more industry-specific critiques, Prince and Rybeck spent much of the lecture discussing issues of art and self-expression relevant to virtually any creative endeavor. According to Rybeck, “Every human being has a unique need to self-express…that is either encouraged or discouraged...
...necessary to life, Rybeck argued, the converse is true as well: life experience feeds one’s art. After sophomore Amy Zelcer performed the song “Stud,” accompanied by the song’s composer, junior Michael Mitnick, Rybeck told Mitnick, “your whole life is preparation for songwriting...