Monthly Archives: December 1991

Wedding March

December 31, 1991
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Music by Mark S. Meritt

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.

Listen to .mp3 sample of Wedding March.

Instrumental.

© & Circle P - Phonorecord Copyright 2007, 1991 Mark S. Meritt

Pursuit

December 31, 1991
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Music by 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.

Listen to .mp3 sample of Pursuit.

Instrumental.

© & Circle P - Phonorecord Copyright 2007, 1991 Mark S. Meritt

Jamaica Scene Change

December 31, 1991
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Music by 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.

Listen to .mp3 sample of Jamaica Scene Change.

Instrumental.

© & Circle P - Phonorecord Copyright 2007, 1991 Mark S. Meritt

Dirge and Fury

December 31, 1991
By
Music by Mark S. Meritt

This piece would eventually find its themes used in the score for the musical The Right Circles.

Listen to .mp3 sample of Dirge and Fury.

Instrumental.

© & Circle P - Phonorecord Copyright 2007, 1991 Mark S. Meritt

The Matchmaker

December 16, 1991
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Book, Lyrics and Music by Mark S. Meritt and Ivy Epstein, based on the mime of Herondas

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.

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