This piece was originally written for the Fall 1991 Theatre Cornell production of The Paranormal Review. Shortly thereafter, it was expanded and used as a wedding march in Bacchanalia Productions’ Prelude to a Kiss.
Instrumental.
© & 
2007, 1991 Mark S. Meritt
This piece would eventually find its themes used in “Abduction,” Mark’s Turner Classic Movies 4th Annual Young Film Composer Competition submission.
Instrumental.
© & 2007, 1991 Mark S. Meritt
This piece was originally written for Bacchanalia Productions’ Prelude to a Kiss. It was later used in the chorus of the song Latinize.
Instrumental.
© & 2007, 1991 Mark S. Meritt
This piece would eventually find its themes used in the score for the musical The Right Circles.
Instrumental.
© & 2007, 1991 Mark S. Meritt
This one-act musical was written as a final project for a course in the history of theatreat Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies. It based on one of the “mimes” of Herondas, short theatrical pieces written to be performed as one-person street shows in ancient Greece. Mimes in general were centered around the notion of imitating a situation or person and often had the performer playing multiple roles. Herondas in particular focused on representing character in his pieces. In this mime, a matchmaker attempts to convince a housewife to leave her husband.
There are currently no viable recordings available.
In 1991, Mark composed a number of variations on themes from George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
This narrative short motion picture, in which a dysfunctional couple is made moreso when a television ratings company lures them into what is later revealed to be an Orwellian conspiracy, was produced by a motion picture course given at Cornell University during the summer of 1991. The script was chosen via a departmental screenwriting competition, which Mark won with this piece. The short was produced on Super-VHS video. In the story, a dysfunctional couple is made moreso when a television ratings company lures them into what is later revealed to be an Orwellian conspiracy.
The digital video was captured by Allan Meritt in January 2007 and posted by Mark on YouTube on January 22, 2007. You can watch the entire video right here by just pressing the Play button immediately below — all parts will automatically play in order. Or, you can visit YouTube to see the video or post a comment.
This paper on three of Paul Simon’s songs was written for a course in poetry at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies.
This paper on David Henry Hwang’s play M. Butterfly
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