Jeff Britting Quotes

• Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

  Jeff Britting

  Meter, Regularity, Certain

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• The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I moved to New York and began working on producing the play with my partners. And as a way to raise money to cover some venture debt, we decided to stage Anthem for a limited run at the Lex Theatre in Hollywood.

  Jeff Britting

  Running, New York, Years

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• After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

  Jeff Britting

  Writing, Piano, Play

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• Actually, one Anthem cue is a good example of the process. There is a four-minute sequence of music in Anthem, which underscores a prison sequence, and it lines up with five different, smaller scenes within one large scene.

  Jeff Britting

  Lines, Example, Different

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• Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.

  Jeff Britting

  Editing, Play, Musical

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• Colaboré con un joven y brillante diseñador de sonido llamado Anthony Mattana, que enriqueció el sonido de toda la producción con efectos vocales, percusivos y otros sonidos. También mezcló los efectos de sonido y la música, utilizando el sistema de sonido de primera clase del teatro para complementar la acústica del teatro. Esto completó mi partitura.

  Jeff Britting

  Sound, Firsts, Acoustics

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• Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera."

  Jeff Britting

  Men, Play, Hymns

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• After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.

  Jeff Britting

  Running, New York, Austin

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• Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the novel [Anthem], and half have not read it. That is interesting.

  Jeff Britting

  Interesting, Directors, Joining

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• I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when I began working in the theater. So, I have written scores for thirteen plays, which are not musicals, but straight plays.

  Jeff Britting

  Play, Opera, Film

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• I really enjoy fusing text and music.

  Jeff Britting

  Disfrute de

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• Who can I marry? Where can I live? What kind of career can I achieve? These are just some of the stories breaking with Anthem-like implications. And the ideas crushing the individual are all around us, chipping away at us constantly.

  Jeff Britting

  Crush, Careers, Ideas

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• Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.

  Jeff Britting

  Tunnels, Looks, Anthem

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• Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music.

  Jeff Britting

  Jumping, Years, Play

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• Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.

  Jeff Britting

  Character, Stories, Majors

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• I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

  Jeff Britting

  Cutting, Three, Stories

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• In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

  Jeff Britting

  Character, Mind, Stories

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• I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

  Jeff Britting

  Jobs, Book, Fall

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• I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

  Jeff Britting

  Stories, Anthem, Mediums

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• Todos los días leo el New York Times antes de ir al teatro. Y tengo una tarea pendiente: conectar el mundo de Anthem con los últimos acontecimientos del día.

  Jeff Britting

  New York, Leaving, Events

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• If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre for an open-ended run.

  Jeff Britting

  Running, New York, Play

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