... a month in London

During the month of October, I have had the great pleasure to live and work in London as a composer. It has been an extraordinary experience to collaborate with well-respected British musicians and actors in presenting a workshop of our show Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, A Musical to the theater industry in London.

What I found is that a British approach to material and musical expression is very different from the approach the American takes. Very simply, the Brit starts with the head and ends up at the heart; the American starts at the heart and works their way to the head analyzing emotional expression. It is astonishing ... they end up with at the same end ... a fully realized understanding of their process. .