Comments on: Moses Composes

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 06:59:14 +0000

Wow! I came home a few minutes ago and got to hear a midi-preview of the orchestral writing Joe is doing for “Moses.” It’s terrific. The restricted pitch and rhythmic environment (both drawn from the spiritual “Go Down Moses”) yields a wonderfully coherent, gently motoric minimalist texture. I really like it. Following the score and mentally hearing the narration I think this will work very well. Bravo Joe!

By: Bill Bowman

Bill Bowman — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:48:36 +0000

Moses the Madcap.

By: Josh Ronsen

Josh Ronsen — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:03:53 +0000

I like the Moses text so far. You are not going to make him stutter?

I was thinking about his stutter, and about your use of melody from “Go Down Moses” and the song “My Generation” came into my head, how unbelievably silly it would be to have Moses sing this song “people try and put us down, just because we get around. Why don’t you all just fade away, and don’t try and dig what we all say…”

Well, maybe that can be another source of melody if you need something.

I hope you are well,

-Josh

By: Steven Hart

Steven Hart — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:12:53 +0000

Moses, Moses — you mad, adorable fool!

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:04:34 +0000

“Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
But Moses supposes erroneously,
Moses he knowses his toeses aren’t roses,
As Moses supposes his toeses to be!