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Utah Shakespearean Festival - Cedar City, UT. 

Original Music and Sound Design:   

Twelfth Night  2007

Director B. J. Jones
Scenic Designer Bill Forrester
Costume Designer Janet L. Swenson
Lighting Designer Donna Ruzika

Music composed by Joe Payne ©2007. 

Quite a large project, consisting of fully composed music, adapted traditional violin solos, and music composed for live musicians and actors.  Middle Eastern Gypsy Royalty was the concept.  I found some evocative gypsy violin solos which I then re-edited almost from scratch and added orchestration  (synth violins have come a long way, but still don't quite compete with the real thing).  The live music was meant to have impact on a modern sensibility, so while not quite historically accurate, it does have energy, simplicity, and elegance that I felt was appropriate for the production.  You definitely can't miss the Middle Eastern Flavor of this score.  I am the performer on the live actors demo.  The actual actors added qualities of their characters to the music infusing a theatrical energy to the live music that is missing in the demos.

12th Night Original Music for Live Actors *   

The Rain It Raineth Every Day, Come Away Death, Orsino's sad music, Oh Mistress Mine, The Catch.

12th Night Adapted Music demo *   

The solo violin was pulled from various found sources, then heavily edited.  All other orchestration by Joe Payne.

12th Night Original Music demo *   

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