[Cast singing]
[Charles Hazelwood] Yeah, well that song is just one that came to me, I can’t remember when it came to me, a couple of years ago and I quickly called it the hot song because there’s something about this, it gradually repeats and gets hotter and hotter and hotter. There’s something about wearing away at a note dah...There’s something about that, there’s added potency to that same note. Somehow that same note has grown extra protein each time you come back to it. It is like wearing away at a wound and it seemed to be like a perfect light motif I suppose is the word, like Wagner used them. You’ve got a thematic idea, a melodic idea which says something fundamental very early on in a drama, in a story, and then gradually recurs, still telling you that same fundamental thing but with additional aspects to it which it’s accrued along the way. So it just seemed like, the great thing about any piece of music which is trying to tell a story, actually all music is frankly trying to tell a story whether it’s something that’s on stage or just something that a string quartet plays. But essentially of course it’s useful to have binding agents, things which draw stuff together and so by having her intern that song very early on in the drama and then to constantly be revisiting it slightly clothed in different ways and in different contexts gives you both a sense of the through line and a sense of lovely recognition and that each time you hear that tune it’s teaching you something new.
[Cast singing]
[Charles Hazelwood] Yeah, well that song is just one that came to me, I can’t remember when it came to me, a couple of years ago and I quickly called it the hot song because there’s something about this, it gradually repeats and gets hotter and hotter and hotter. There’s something about wearing away at a note dah...There’s something about that, there’s added potency to that same note. Somehow that same note has grown extra protein each time you come back to it. It is like wearing away at a wound and it seemed to be like a perfect light motif I suppose is the word, like Wagner used them. You’ve got a thematic idea, a melodic idea which says something fundamental very early on in a drama, in a story, and then gradually recurs, still telling you that same fundamental thing but with additional aspects to it which it’s accrued along the way. So it just seemed like, the great thing about any piece of music which is trying to tell a story, actually all music is frankly trying to tell a story whether it’s something that’s on stage or just something that a string quartet plays. But essentially of course it’s useful to have binding agents, things which draw stuff together and so by having her intern that song very early on in the drama and then to constantly be revisiting it slightly clothed in different ways and in different contexts gives you both a sense of the through line and a sense of lovely recognition and that each time you hear that tune it’s teaching you something new.
[Cast singing]