This is an image from the non-fiction volume, ‘Nights and Days On the Gypsy Trail’ published in 1922. Written by an American of Gypsy descent, Irving Brown, I finally obtained a copy of this book that I had heard about, but never actually seen available. To be fair, I was looking for a 1st. Edition […]
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I thought I would do a quick post on the basics of Flamenco Percussion, as percussion in The Stranger from Seville (adapted from the novel, The Mapmaker’s Opera, by Béa Gonzalez) is an integral element to the sound world we create in the Musical. Contextually, we make use of the flamenco sound world especially in
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OK, the long awaited sequel to my post on 19th-Century Opera in México! It would come as no surprise to anyone who has been following this journey of writing The Stranger from Seville musical, as an adaptation of Béa Gonzalez’s novel, The Mapmaker’s Opera, that opera in México went through some pretty drastic changes in
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