I was recently watching a master class with Jason Robert Brown and The Dramatists Guild of America.  Therein Brown said something that struck me (this was said in conversation – don’t judge the grammar too harshly):

“Structure is our whole deal – structure is the whole game.  That’s all we’ve got really, as composers.  Everybody’s got notes.  All we can do it to arrange those notes within a certain structure.”

Wow. This is huge. I mean, it must be true – he does have three names and all…Continue reading→