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I’m doing the music to a short film by Mel Shapiro called INFRARED. Mel, as you may remember, wrote the book and lyrics to HOMER IN CYBERSPACE — a musical we premiered last years. I’m playing all the parts myself using Logic 9 (just arrived yesterday). It’s the smokiest, jazziest music I’ve composed to date, [...]
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For academics, summertime is a time of recharging: reading, doing our research, catching up on projects that we didn’t have time to do during the academic year, and traveling. I note that my blogging pattern is about once every five days of late. My year has been so busy I just haven’t had the time [...]
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What a year!
The highlight of my year had to be the premiere of HOMER IN CYBERSPACE, my new musical written with Mel Shapiro. I don’t have the interest or connections to try to send it to Broadway, but am certain it could have a huge audience if put in the right hands.
A trip to Hawaii [...]
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Although not as colorful as a New England fall, Los Angeles is having its fall. Santa Ana winds and hot dry weather together with fires along Sepulveda Blvd alongside the 405 have added color to the sky and particulate matter for we breathing types. Jenny and Matias are down for a wedding and staying with [...]
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Moorea at sunset
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The trickiest part of setting these lyrics for me was setting the name “Penelope” and saying “I love you.”
No One to Wait For
Music: Roger Bourland
Lyrics: Mel Shapiro
The Captain: Patrick Logotheti
No one to wait for
No endless longing
No one to worry for
Just someone belonging
To you
Someone who’s really here
Here at [...]
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Rejection
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“Rejection” from HOMER IN CYBERSPACE
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Music: Roger Bourland
Lyrics: Mel Shapiro
Calypso: Jessica Armstrong
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REJECTION
Flypaper sings Rejection
After much introspection
It’ud be dereliction
Not tellin’ you what turns me on
(Baby)
Profound inspection
And sheer detection
Makes obvious what turns me on
(Baby)
Tear up my letters
Don’t return my calls
Spurn me every which way
See how this sucker crawls
Rejection!
Love it to death
Oh yeah
Rejection
Who [...]
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“Part-time Lover”
“Part-time Lover” from HOMER IN CYBERSPACE
Music: Roger Bourland
Lyrics: Mel Shapiro
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Part-time Lover
Woman 1 and chorus
(Sing)
A married man wants a part time lover
Who he can call any time or other
Come over
Relax
Before you send him home
Iron his slacks.
Doin things his wife won’t do
Used to do
Too tired to do
Listenin’ to his stories
Dull [...]
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“Someday Soon” by Roger Bourland and Mel Shapiro
“Someday Soon” from HOMER IN CYBERSPACE (2008)
Music: Roger Bourland
Lyrics: Mel Shapiro
Tenor (”O”): Kevin Muster
©2008 by Roger Bourland and Mel Shapiro
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Every opera has to have an aria with a passacaglia (a melody in the bass that repeats over and over) and this work [...]
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On Sunday, two days after our Mill Valley marriage, Richard and Paul invited two dear friends for lunch. Tatyana and Serge are terrific people and the fact that they came bearing jamon iberico had me prejudiced in their favor from square one.
I have tried to get HOMER IN CYBERSPACE out of my head for months [...]
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Conference of the iGods; © Roger Bourland and Mel Shapiro
“Conference of the iGods” from HOMER IN CYBERSPACE
Music: Roger Bourland
Lyrics: Mel Shapiro
Chief: Nathan Langdon
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Conference of the iGods (12:51)
Tina:
Stay as far
Under the radar
Of the i-gods,
My man
Don’t let them
Know you exist
They won’t hesitate
To control your
Fate
Don’t let them
Get your number
The i-gods are as [...]
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