Excited? Sure.
/Having romped through the premiere of Ten Little Waltzes with Southern Arc Dance a couple of weeks ago, I am now steeling myself for the next project: Two Showstopping Dance Numbers for that clown in Beijing.
As luck would have it, I had pulled up an old piece I started several years ago when I was working on the suite that would become Getting Through Getting Over for Southern Arc Dance. I was thinking it’s a possible piece for my next venture with them, and it occurred to me that I could pull one over on the clown and suggest this as a possibility for his thing.
I told him it was a “dream ballet,” with a jagged Martha Graham/Alvin Ailey opening, followed by a flowing pas de deux.
The key thing is that Mike — that is the clown’s “name” — told me he doesn’t need Two Showstopping Dance Numbers to be finished, just the opening and maybe something in the middle, so the fact that this piece is incomplete doesn’t matter. I emailed him and he approved, although he referred to it as workable for “the duo number” which I believe may be referring to a secret third piece that he probably thinks I didn’t notice that he’s tried to slip in here.
At any rate, here is Excitato in its current state. I will be working on finishing it for Southern Arc Dance, and the clown can do with it what he will.
My plan is for this to be the first movement in a suite in the same vein as Getting Through or Ten Little Waltzes. As usual, I share the music warts and all so that anyone under the impression that I just plop shinyperfects out of my head onto the page like a common Mozart can be assured that I do not, I can not do that. You can hear it fall apart at the end, and there’s one measure in the flowing bit that needs some tightening of harmonies. Stay tuned.
On a personal note: Tomorrow my Lovely First Wife will have surgery that will require her recuperation (after a short hospital stay) for probably a month. My blogging (and composing) may be a bit spotty in the meantime.
