WHAT'S NEW 2024-25

ANNOUNCING:

The complete performing script of MUSE of FIRE will published next year by DelGatto Press. The edition will feature copious annotations, critiques and appreciations from professionals, and will feature an extensive consideration of the play written by the great American pianist, conductor and pedagogue, Lorin Hollander. Details soon.


2025 ANNIVESARY:

2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Charles Bruck at the Monteux School in Hancock, Maine and the 20th anniversary of the premiere of MUSE of FIRE. During the year, Maestro Katz is pleased to offer dramatic readings of the play in conjunction with its publication, scheduled for spring 2025. Please contact him now to arrange a visit for your audience. Dates available through fall 2025.

 

PERFORMANCE HISTORY:

PRIVATE PERFORMANCE: MUSE of FIRE at the Conductors Retreat at Medomak, Washington, ME. Performance at the request of Maestro Kenneth Kiesler. (This is David's third appearance in MUSE of FIRE at the unique conducting school near Camden.)

COMMAND PERFORMANCE: MUSE of FIRE for the University of Michigan School of Music, Britton Recital Hall.

MUSE of FIRE returns to MICHIGAN, performance sponsored by HILLSDALE COLLEGE, Hillsdale, MI.

OHIO DEBUT of MUSE of FIRE, performance sponsored by Malone University, Canton, Ohio.

WISCONSIN DEBUT of MUSE of FIRE, performance sponsored by the Oconomowoc Chamber Orchestra, Oconomowoc, WI.

MUSE of FIRE returns to KENTUCKY: performance sponsored by the Centre College Music Department, Danville, KY.

MUSE of FIRE returns to MICHIGAN: performance sponsored by Adrian College in cooperation with the Adrian Symphony Orchestra, Adrian, MI.

NEW JERSEY DEBUT of MUSE of FIRE, performance sponsored by the Garden State Philharmonic

MORE RECENT PERFORMANCES


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"...great humor and great compassion..."—Acadia Repertory Theater

 

 

MUSE of FIRE: Scenes & Melodramas

When a great European Maestro will stop at nothing to mold an apprentice in the flames of his passion for music, the young man discovers that great conductors are not born: they must be forged—in fire.

The use of the word "melodrama" in MUSE of FIRE refers to its original, musical meaning: when spoken text is accompanied by—or contrasted with—music.

 

ACT I

 

     Overture

     Sorcerer & Apprentice

     The Thirty Bs

     Colloquy/Anxiety

     *Melodrama: The Wagner & the Shouting

     “I have a Thschool”

     Maine Idyll

     *Melodrama: 3 Conductors and No Answers

     Surgery

 

Intermission

ACT II


     Bastille Day

     *Melodrama: The Schumann & the Sorrow

     Imitations—but all of them

     *Melodrama: A Survivor from Hancock

     DeGaulle’s Tempo

     *Melodrama: Fireworks Music

     Coda