How Did Assisi's New Wine Become A Musical?
This originally started as a simple screenplay. It became a musical the more deeply I got involved with the project. The music is integral to the story, and Assisi's New Wine really doesn't exist apart from it. I was writing script. And in the creative process was compelled to add lyrics. As I studied the Late Middle Ages, I saw that the Troubadours were very much a part of life of Southern France and Northern Italy during that period. Francis' own mother may have had some Troubadour history. The two of them were very close. Francis was known as "King of the Feasts " as a young man. A lot of that would have involved singing. He wrote a fair amount of verse after his Christian conversion, one song which has been adapted to become what we know as All Creatures of our God and King. This story begged to have music as an integral part. Therefore I wrote the verse, and the initial melodies. The project's musician is finishing the work by adding multiple dimensions to the songs.
This originally started as a simple screenplay. It became a musical the more deeply I got involved with the project. The music is integral to the story, and Assisi's New Wine really doesn't exist apart from it. I was writing script. And in the creative process was compelled to add lyrics. As I studied the Late Middle Ages, I saw that the Troubadours were very much a part of life of Southern France and Northern Italy during that period. Francis' own mother may have had some Troubadour history. The two of them were very close. Francis was known as "King of the Feasts " as a young man. A lot of that would have involved singing. He wrote a fair amount of verse after his Christian conversion, one song which has been adapted to become what we know as All Creatures of our God and King. This story begged to have music as an integral part. Therefore I wrote the verse, and the initial melodies. The project's musician is finishing the work by adding multiple dimensions to the songs.