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We've been having some fun these last few weeks with the addition of the collaborative improvs, and not to mention the great solo improvisations! Last week was outstanding! We don't have a seed yet, but if no one adds one, I should by Thursday evening.
This week in honor of ImprovFriday, I am proud to announce the premiere of the miniature opera, "The Man Who Lives Inside a Piano Finds a Hornets Nest." And by miniature, I mean just that. 6 1/2 minutes. Dennis and Lee are kind to let me go forward with this. I hope they like what I did!!!! It will look like this (plus or minus a few changes).
Premiering July 3, 2009, at 4 PM TST (an ImprovFriday Event)
The Man Who Lives Inside a Piano Finds a Hornet’s Nest
A Miniature Opera for Text and Audio – Dedicated to David Toub
by Lee Noyes, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, JC Combs
The Players
Lee Noyes as Bartolomeo Cristofori
Piano - Improvisation
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz as Franc the Piano Tuner
Extended Voice – Improvisation
JC Combs
Sound Synthesis – Libretto
Libretto
The Background: It had been no more than two years since Franc took up residence inside a piano. An unfortunate dwelling, but not by choice. You see Franc, a piano tuner by trade, was tricked and pushed into a Steinway Grand D by a concert pianist with a surprisingly sinister side. His name was Bartolomeo Cristofori. He had phoned Franc earlier in the day complaining that a penny had somehow dropped into the soundboard, apparently making somewhat of a persistent rattling noise. ”No, look further in, down there. You must retrieve the penny so I can sufficiently practice for the concert at the estate of Prince Ferdinando de Medici this coming Friday.” Those were the last words Franc remembered hearing before falling headlong into the gigantic grand. He passed out for some time and woke up only to find the piano nailed shut, with him in it! Inside, he realized that the piano had been converted into a sort of prison cell.
Franc tried for days on end to kick the lid open but to no avail. However, a peculiar thing happened one day when his captor first played the piano while he was locked inside. As Bartolomeo played, Franco lost the ability to speak and all he could do was make vocal gestures, as if he had forgotten the English language altogether. Another strange thing happened when the pianist struck a note: Franc became extremely happy, and so it wasn’t long before Franc decided that should one day his captor free him, he would stay in the piano of his own will. Every day henceforth was wonderful for Franc, as he would wake up early and clean and tune the inside of the piano in preparation to play along with the pianist. Franc had become quite proud of his ability to pluck the strings and beat strong rhythms on the aged wooden walls which enveloped him. Together the sinister pianist and Franc the piano tuner created brilliant masterpieces. That is, until one day while carefully tending to the inner workings of the grand he came upon a hornet’s nest.
Where We Catch Up With the Players (turn on the audio<</a>/b>): As Franc cannot call out fo...
This week in honor of ImprovFriday, I am proud to announce the premiere of the miniature opera, "The Man Who Lives Inside a Piano Finds a Hornets Nest." And by miniature, I mean just that. 6 1/2 minutes. Dennis and Lee are kind to let me go forward with this. I hope they like what I did!!!! It will look like this (plus or minus a few changes).
Premiering July 3, 2009, at 4 PM TST (an ImprovFriday Event)
The Man Who Lives Inside a Piano Finds a Hornet’s Nest
A Miniature Opera for Text and Audio – Dedicated to David Toub
by Lee Noyes, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, JC Combs
The Players
Lee Noyes as Bartolomeo Cristofori
Piano - Improvisation
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz as Franc the Piano Tuner
Extended Voice – Improvisation
JC Combs
Sound Synthesis – Libretto
Libretto
The Background: It had been no more than two years since Franc took up residence inside a piano. An unfortunate dwelling, but not by choice. You see Franc, a piano tuner by trade, was tricked and pushed into a Steinway Grand D by a concert pianist with a surprisingly sinister side. His name was Bartolomeo Cristofori. He had phoned Franc earlier in the day complaining that a penny had somehow dropped into the soundboard, apparently making somewhat of a persistent rattling noise. ”No, look further in, down there. You must retrieve the penny so I can sufficiently practice for the concert at the estate of Prince Ferdinando de Medici this coming Friday.” Those were the last words Franc remembered hearing before falling headlong into the gigantic grand. He passed out for some time and woke up only to find the piano nailed shut, with him in it! Inside, he realized that the piano had been converted into a sort of prison cell.
Franc tried for days on end to kick the lid open but to no avail. However, a peculiar thing happened one day when his captor first played the piano while he was locked inside. As Bartolomeo played, Franco lost the ability to speak and all he could do was make vocal gestures, as if he had forgotten the English language altogether. Another strange thing happened when the pianist struck a note: Franc became extremely happy, and so it wasn’t long before Franc decided that should one day his captor free him, he would stay in the piano of his own will. Every day henceforth was wonderful for Franc, as he would wake up early and clean and tune the inside of the piano in preparation to play along with the pianist. Franc had become quite proud of his ability to pluck the strings and beat strong rhythms on the aged wooden walls which enveloped him. Together the sinister pianist and Franc the piano tuner created brilliant masterpieces. That is, until one day while carefully tending to the inner workings of the grand he came upon a hornet’s nest.
Where We Catch Up With the Players (turn on the audio<</a>/b>): As Franc cannot call out fo...
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Permalink Reply by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz on -
I dint do no pianoz. Wuz only voice.
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Dennis Bathory-Kitsz said:I dint do no pianoz. Wuz only voice.
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Now that's a scary LOL!
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Permalink Reply by J.C. Combs on -
Fixed. lol @ those pics!
Jeff Harrington said:Now that's a scary LOL!
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz said:
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I haven't had time to make a seed, but I don't think we need to worry. Somebody will probably add onto someone else's impro tomorrow. We'll see what happens.
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Permalink Reply by J.C. Combs on
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1/2 hr until premiere!!! ;)
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Update:
If anyone has questions, I'm keeping the NNM chat open.
J.C. Combs said:1/2 hr until premiere!!! ;)
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