Good Person of Szechwan

by joel mellin

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	1.	Overture: Wasteland 05:00
	2.	Theme of the Gods 03:27
	3.	Song of the Smoke (instrumental) 04:29
	4.	Theme of the Gods II (piano w/strings) 00:37
	5.	The Waterseller's Song (instrumental) 03:37
	6.	Interlude: Lost in the Ether 00:42
	7.	The Song of Defenselessness (instrumental) 05:09
	8.	Theme of the Gods III (piano w/kendang) 00:35
	9.	Seven Elephants (instrumental) 04:05
	10.	Interlude: Shen Te's Dreamland 02:56
	11.	Interlude: Falling 01:12
	12.	The Day of St. Never To Be (instrumental) 04:31
	13.	Interlude: Dance of the Wandering Gods 03:44
	14.	Interlude: Judgement awaits 01:34
	15.	The Trio of The Gods 04:20
	16.	Epilogue 02:41

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The Good Person of Szechwan
by Bertolt Brecht

Translated by Tony Kushner
Production by Adelphi University
Director: Margaret Lally
Musical Director and Composer: Joel Mellin

While I wrote and recorded all of the music, this was very much an interactive theater experiment. There was a live 'pit' on stage where members of the cast played along - and often filled in - parts of the music. The lyrics - not presented here - were translated from the original Brecht by Tony Kushner. The idea was to give the music a sense of timelessness and yet, still, contemporary. The pit played found object instruments that you might imagine in a forgotten wasteland of no place in particular. And, yet, a place we can all imagine.