When I was at school I studied Milton's 'Paradise Lost' as part of my English Literature course. When I was 17 I wrote a modern free verse version of the same story which was something of an epic as well. It took a long time to write and I was fortunate enough to be at the kind of school where I was allowed to skip lessons and carry on with the writing so long as I was at the premises. It filled a school exercise book and was in several 'chapters' some of which were short; one was only about 6 lines, and others went on for pages. Unfortunately I no longer have a copy.
About 12 years later I joined a church amateur dramatic group who were looking for royalty free plays and entertainments to perform. At the time I was revisiting the fallen angel theme and was also reading Tolkien avariciously. Not being particularly religious I did however produce a series of songs with a common theme and I edited them together with some narrative and stage directions and "The Painting Box" was born. Rehearsals began with the church choir, a school choir and various friends and relations. Unfortunately time was against us and it proved impossible to stage the whole production on the due dates. So a compromise was reached and I rewrote some parts and we presented some of the songs with a small chorus and some actors.
In this new video age I thought I would revive the original Painting Box with this new medium -- I have already posted Nosferatu, The Un-one, Holocaust and the Seers Song -- all in the wrong order! So at last this is the intro -- "The Angel".
It is not an easy song to perform solo so please forgive the odd mistake!
I will try to record some more in the next few weeks.
"From the artist we gained both beauty and horror - from the poet we have gained both joy and sadness -- from the giant coagulum of life we have many colours: The Painting Box" BCR 1987
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What he said, plus... Holy Schmazolie Bryan ! What an excellent production, I mean holy crap man, this is Fantastic.
The video, everything, just floors me. Me thinks you've been holding out on us.
Creative Genius of the highest order. WoW.
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