Comments on: Rocky Horror Show Music Orchestration

By: askland

askland — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:45:10 +0000

Hey, liking broadway orchestrations doesn’t make you nerdy. In fact there used to be a Broadway Orchestration Gang – problem was that when they got together the dance music from West Side Story starting playing in the background…….

By: Alex Tirrell

Alex Tirrell — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:31:24 +0000

Haha… Sometimes I feel like the only broadway orchestration nerd. You know, the kind that feels like getting his hands on a new score is like opening a present on Christmas morning.

By: askland

askland — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:25:15 +0000

Hi Alex,
How would you like to be my new best friend?
🙂

By: Alex Tirrell

Alex Tirrell — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:59:39 +0000

Many months later…
As I’m sure you’ve realized if you ever got the scores, the ones provided are not very useful and neither match the original London production or the film very well.

For our current production, I have had to write vocal chorus parts for our ensemble, because there are none provided in the piano-conductor score.

Much of the instrumentation is awful, so I’ve rewritten much of the parts, sourcing the film soundtrack and that of the numerous CDs that have been put out. It seems that everyone does what I’m doing. They all sound like they are simply based upon the provided orchestrations, and the music director wrote or rewrote parts.