Unrequited Love: It's Not Just for Women

Last weekend I made a substantial foray into the works of composer-lyricist-vocal arranger Hugh Martin, famous for the songs from Meet Me in St. Louis (which isn't a good movie, despite Minnelli directing and the good songs). I listened to cast recordings of three of his Broadway shows: Best Foot Forward (with Ralph Blane, his main collaborator), Make a Wish and High Spirits (with Timothy Gray), as well as a collected demos CD called Hidden Treasures. Everything I listened to except for High Spirits was almost uniformly brilliant. I attribute High Spirits failure to impress me to poor orchestrations (as a wannabe composer-lyricist-orchestrator this hurts me a lot more than it might most people) and a clutch of weak songs, including what was essentially a list song about how seance is better than any drug trips.

An Analysis of Evening Primrose

This is my second blog (after a brief attempt at movie reviews to help myself write better). This blog is also mainly aimed at improving my writing and critical thinking, but also at getting some of my work out there. To start with I'm going to post an analysis of Evening Primrose that I also put on the discussion board for my film class. More after the jump.