"...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 Bastille Day *Melodrama: The Schumann & the Sorrow Imitations—but all of them *Melodrama: A Survivor from Hancock DeGaulle’s Tempo *Melodrama: Fireworks Music Coda Intermission
ACT II