{"id":562,"date":"2014-04-08T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/?p=562"},"modified":"2017-12-22T17:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T01:58:35","slug":"music-for-faustus-a-new-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philshackleton.com\/site\/2014\/04\/08\/music-for-faustus-a-new-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Music for Faustus, a new adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rachel Tracie<\/a>, Chair of the Theater Department in College of Music and Arts, Azusa Pacific University<\/a>, has written a play updating the Christopher Marlowe classic, named\u00a0Faustus: A New Adaptation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Prof. Tracie’s concept for this play involved original music to be composed specially for the play, and we eventually settled on a pianist situated in the center of the stage, in view of the audience, with the action and dialog in the play going on between the pianist and the audience. \u00a0The pianist for the premiere of this play is Prof. Joel Clifft<\/a>, for whom it has been a joy to compose. \u00a0He plays a “dark presence” making musical comments about the proceedings onstage. \u00a0The music is much more tightly integrated into the play than what is sometimes called “incidental music,” and involves both playing the piano from the keys and directly from the strings.<\/p>\n

Here’s a short introduction to the play. I didn’t write the music for the trailer, just the play.<\/p>\n