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Looking forward to June...

I have really enjoyed my regular meetings with Pat this spring—it's been wonderful to dive so deeply into Tomas' poetry, in a way that we are only now ready to do. There is an incredible amount of material that has been generated through development workshops and meetings since we began work in earnest in January 2006...the sheer amount, richness, and diversity of material has been both incredibly inspiring and also a bit daunting. This time in the process is an exciting one...we have been swimming around in this ocean of abstract (but always compelling) material for nearly three years now, while dodging logistical and financial obstacles of all kinds, and finally....strong structural shapes, rich characters, and beautiful, complex inter-relationships are beginning to emerge from the mists.

I can't wait to see where we'll go from here. Thanks everyone, for your creativity, enthusiasm, and dedication.

Scores will go out in the first days of May. See you all in Sweden!

Working for this summer

I just wanted everyone to know that Ellen and I have been working very hard together to get things organized for this summer.  And when I say organized, I mean from a compositional point of view (both musical and visual).  The discussions that came out of our meetings this January were very helpful in creating some structure for the piece in general, and has given us some context for the design, upcoming improvs, and the shapes of the pieces that we worked with last summer.  If we contact you to discuss character and these developments, please do us the favour of replying quickly, as Ellen is trying to complete the scores soon so that you will have them well before the workshop.  Also, below are listed possible times and confirmations for meetings this week:

Kathleen: can we try to meet on Tuesday afternoon?  I think that would work best for me.
Aaron: I am still waiting to hear back from you.
Camille: can we try to meet Thursday?
Mike and Christa: meeting on Sat May 2 at 10am- in Manhattan if that works.
Henny, Torkel, Camille, Ellen, Katya, Marci: we need to set up another time to meet: can we do that later this week?  Is Sunday out of the question?

Robert and I had a great meeting, and Laura K. and Ellen had one also.  People I would like to touch base with after this week: Laura Barger, Angela, Malin, Nicolas. 

So that everyone knows, Marci, our new Company Manager, and I have been working out some data bases for your characters and casting in each of the poems, as well as a general flow of the piece in general as it stands.  I am hoping that this is something that we can all keep adding to up to the premiere.  Perhaps these grids will be posted somehow online.

Looking forward to hearing from you all.

Pat

The flying photo to which Pat is referring:

some visual references for the project.

Hi-

Im testing out the blogsite by trying to add some visuals to it.  First I am going to provide a link for a photo that I like and find inpiring for the flying in the project.

http://www.jameskelly.com/nic_nicosia/nic_nicosia16.html

Visual References

I have been working to get some images up that make me think of our project. Here are some images.

Here's a great link to one- go to this site and choose gallery from the menu at the bottom, then choose photographs and then go to the scroll on the right.It will be the eleventh image down. It is black and white with a man's face and the reflection of a tree branch over it. The info says it is from 1986 JD in his car smoking crack.

Summer in Sweden is coming

Can't wait to be there and see what develops. So many possibilities waiting to be explored!