[quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]the music in a musical should involve a flight of spirit so extreme that words cannot contain the feeling.[/quote]
I agree with that.
Also, there are some church choir songs that are inspiring in the same sort of way. I don’t enjoy it often, but when done right – and I think predominately black churches do it better than predominately white churches – it is very uplifting.
It is coming back to me. The last anniversary play we saw was a Shakespeare play in the Old Globe [edit: actually Lowell Davies theater outside]. I had procrastinated to the last minute and by some fluke 2 front row seats came available. We had the best seats ever. The weather was perfect, the night was clear, and we sat there barely understanding a single word of the English language. It was frustrating. It was a comedy and some people laughed, but we weren’t getting the jokes for the most part. Way too much energy just to follow the dialog – I didn’t have the bandwidth left to piece together and enjoy the story.
After that, she said that’s it. I quit.
Which reminds me of a great BB King song…If That Ain’t It I Quit[/quote]
theres a piece by charles mingus called wednesday Night prayer meeting, which is a raucous bluesy jazz simulation of a prayer meeting that is spiritual, powerful, funny, and entertaining, and takes music to soaring heights by transforming what recognizeable human like voices into pure sound and rhythm . it has some of the qaulities id expect in a superior musical, but substitutes instruments for human voices
