Today I will try to figure out the “Merry-Go-Round” section, which is a little dance piece centering around major seventh and ninth harmony and depending on repetition for its effect. My tendency is to get bored easily when I am writing, and to want variation for its own sake. I remember thinking when I wrote this piece that I wanted to limit what I said. The point of a carousel is that the same thing happens over and over. As the Father and Mother spin around on the carousel, it seems the music will never stop and they will never get off. Now I will see what I can do with new instruments to make that happen.
This is the photo we used for the Fringe Production of "In Dreams…"
The new version will be performed for Nautilus Rough Cuts on the evenings of May 18th and 19th. It will be fully danced, so on the 18th we will probably be downstairs from Nautilus’s itty little studio, to give it more space. I hope to find a nice dance space for the 19th.
