Word: songfulness
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...that of nine-year-old Guido, played enthusiastically by the young Julyano Silva. The musical, accompanied by a live orchestra, moved seamlessly from heartfelt ballads like “My Husband Makes Movies,” sung beautifully by Rachel E. Flynn ’09, to raunchy song-and-dance numbers and back again. It’s a testament to both Yeston’s playwriting and the direction of Barry A. Shafrin ’09. While the choreography could have been executed more gracefully, the staging was creative and particularly enjoyable...
...Gorey than Dr. Seuss. And so “Aurélia’s Oratorio” manages to stay pitch-perfect, with a few exceptions. In one of the weaker moments, a disco ball appears onstage, and the generally unobtrusive score switches to an accordion-inflected circus song with fairly raunchy lyrics. The segment is too patently weird, and it belies the elegant and understated nature of the rest of the production. But even here there is a moment of genius; with the aid of creative costuming, Martinez bends over to appear as both the male and female...
What makes a song good is content. I always try to write a song so that if I had written it 50 years earlier, it would have meant something to people; at the time that I'm writing it, it's going to mean something to people; and 50 years from now, it's going to mean something to people...
...mood songwriter. I don't have to be happy to write a happy song. I write what I'm inspired to write at that time. I'm a life observer and I'm a people watcher, and so I just see things that happen and I write about them...
Well, you know what? I have sung some of those songs thousands of times. Every single, solitary night, they are all brand-new to me, every time. I've never gotten to the point where I say, Oh, I gotta hurry up and sing this because I'm bored with this song. It don't happen like that...