Got a little writeup in the Onion AV Club this week, in TC Daily Planet, and in Minnesota Monthly, and MPR will air a drivetime spot Tuesday. For some reason in all these writeups you have to scroll to the bottom to find my show. I wonder why that is…
I’ll be in DC on BD’s opening weekend, performing Fidgety Fairy Tales with a group of six young actors and Matt for a national convention.
One Baudelaire song written, and two more in the works. I actually made myself cry improvising some ideas for one on piano. Now we shall see how it turns out. What I have discovered about setting Baudelaire is that I have to cut, cut, cut. The language is too thick in all the translations I have. Too many adjectives. The song cycle will be performed in February and I hope to have all the writing done by the end of December. The first song I wrote I junked. The second I’m not so sure about but I sent it off anyway.
In any case, it is very promising, and I will have more to say about this project in the coming month. For now, I will only say that Baudelaire is much deeper and cooler than the popular ideas about him.
