These past three weeks have marked hell
week, and the final production of "How to Succeed in Business without
Really Trying." My role, J. Pierrepont Finch has become somewhat of a
challenge to me. It was not that playing the character was a difficult
thing, it was attempting to put myself into Finch's intellectual mindset; what
is next and what is it that finch is thinking in terms of the past or present. That,
to me, is the most interesting part of the art; to place yourself in another
man's shoes and live their life for a whole two hours. Lately, I have been
also been very interested in music composition. I have embarked on
a journey in which I plan to finish a piano arrangement in which I
initially composed approximately 4 weeks ago. New plans changed my initial
idea, and now I am in the process of writing string parts to it. The piece is
based off of Sicilian music with mandolin parts. It
mainly focuses on the mandolin and the piano as the
"narratives" to the "story line". I am also thinking of
adding a vocal part to the song, possibly in the style of classical operatic
style. Another main influence has been the emphasis on the
harpsichord. This idea mainly came from Handel's "Suite in F major (HWV 348), Bourrée". although Handel's piece is a
completely different sound, stylistically speaking if focuses its
sound around a general pattern of a "theme", so to say. Sicilian Music with mandolins
