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*puts hands on hollywood exec's shoulders, staring unblinking into their eyes* listen to me. you will never get people who hate musicals to like musicals by making your musical less of a musical. if you hide the fact that your film is a musical in the advertising, you're going to get a lot of low ratings from people who hate musicals and went into your movie not expecting a musical and got one anyway. people who hate musicals will hate them no matter how realistic and diegetic and lowkey you try to make it. they will hate musicals even if you completely excise anything complicated, over the top, silly, or even slightly challenging. they will hate musicals even if you cut half the songs. they will hate musicals even if you cast that a-lister who can't sing worth a damn. stop trying to market to people who hate musicals. they're a lost cause. your audience should be people who love musicals. this half-assed middle ground pisses off both camps. just embrace the fact that your movie is a musical. lean into it. don't try and trick musical haters into coming to your film when you could be marketing to the theater kids. better cringe than a coward.

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I had a realisation this morning that, after last night, our final concert was DONE, and I taught my final catch-up lesson this evening. Just the small job of rewriting a musical ready for September, now... 😅 Watch this space!! 🎶🎹🎤😊

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Throwback to a fun duet several years ago 😊

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We often put music on when we're eating tea, and I couldn't resist playing along to this song when it came on...

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A great summer concert last night with the Little Hereford Voices. What a fantastic evening - well done, everyone! 😁 🎶☀🎹

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I need to try this

Especially since I hardly get round to listening to any new bands these days as my time is so full of musical theatre! And even that is somewhat lacking in new music (I do a lot of arranging of popular tunes).

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It’s the truth

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I invented this new thing where I sing “Audrey runs around the table” while Audrey runs around the table, and now it’s all she wants to do.

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https://twitter.com/northumbriana/status/846454474654781442

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Lookie, I finally got a choir (other than my ‘fun’ community choirs) to sing a piece of mine. 

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every musician before taking a music aesthetic picture: right gotta find the most difficult looking page of this sheet music

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Hehe

This is flat out vulgar! There are minors present! 

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Fun music history fact of the day: Bach once wrote a ten minute medley of weird inside jokes, sexual innuendo, nonsense rhymes, extremely bad puns, deliberate mistakes in counterpoint, and to top it all off, an awful 10-second fugue which is then promptly made fun of.

Why? for a family member’s wedding, which would have involved a huge get-together of the Bach clan, most of whom were musicians who would have gotten the jokes. They really knew how to party in 1708.

the music

a translation and a valiant attempt at explanation (halfway down the page)

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I just could not resist (photo via imgur)

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What did the conductor say when he found his missing music?

“SCORE!”

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With the success of a hip-hop musical about Hamilton, they should make more musicals progressing forward in American history but with musical genres moving back in time until we get a musical about Barack Obama with 18th-century music. Baroque Obama.