| re: A number of questions about '1776' the movie | |
| Posted by: peter3053 03:19 am EDT 07/06/21 | |
| In reply to: re: A number of questions about '1776' the movie - ryhog 10:35 pm EDT 07/05/21 | |
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| The other factor is that a lot of pop writers (and their product is turning up more and more on Broadway) don't know the resources of craft that are at their disposal. Sondheim and Hammerstein certainly does and did, respectively, and I bow to their knowledge of the craft to which they devoted their lives, writing songs specifically for the theater. Different sensibilities, yet equal in their knowledge of the resources and uses of rhyme and other dimensions of lyric writing. Their essays on the subject are inspiring. And returning to the original concern, namely critics who dismissed the score of 1776, I seem to recall a comment of Sondheim's a few years back: "Critics know nothing." It's hyperbolic, but then hyperbole is useful to drive home a point. Tastes do change and we are all to an extent the creatures of the era we were born into - would any of us relish the return to operetta as written in the early 20th century? Probably not. But I was saddened when the hope of the side (and I mean that quite genuinely) Lin Manuel Miranda rhymed "crowds" and "aloud" in the "Broadway is Back" clip recently. I know it was a slip in an otherwise well rhymed (and witty) piece - but it was right when the music slowed and a (somewhat faux) moment of deep feeling was being suggested, which drew added attention to the fault. Ah well. I am considering checking into an antique store and offering myself as a relic. |
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