Dante: The Musical

[arisbe]

Mgr Frisina said that he would use heavy metal rhythms, punk rock and jazz to recount Hell, Gregorian mystical music for Purgatory and a triumphant explosion of lyrical and symphonic music, modern as well as classical, to usher in Paradise.

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Is this some sort of Italian thing? When we go to heaven we leave plainchant behind and graduate to... Verdi?

No, no, no, no...

Comments

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I love listening to progressive rock music, especially songs that mix heavy metal music -and- classical music.

So, in this composer's world, I'll have to run back and forth between Hell and Heaven to get my fix?

(By the way, I've heard from seraphimsigrist that you've been unwell. Get well soon!)

No, no, no, no... Indeed!

[theoldanarchist.livejournal.com]

No, I can't agree with that at all...

First, I simply cannot accept such a narrow and categorized view: "This kind of music symbolizes hell, this kind this, and that kind that..." Yadda yadda yadda.

In the script I am currently writing, I use all sorts of styles of music throughout the show, mixing styles together and layering music on top of other music. I cannot imagine saying something so simple as "Folk music will represent Lysander's home, and Jazz will represent Carthage, and Punk will represent The Wreck of Time...". Entirely too simplistic.

I love and respect entirely too much music, and I especially love music that is complex and mulifaceted, to ever categorize it so easily.

Besides, in heaven, I fully intend to be listening to Bach---not Verdi!

[gislebertus.livejournal.com]

Although I've got to agree that Verdi belongs in heaven, and jazz should be there as well, everyone knows that hell is the domain of bad country music.

Yiiiikes!

[mizannie.livejournal.com]

I get the same feeling from this that
I did when my mother would try to be hip with me and my friends when I was
13 **Eeewwwww***

[bela.livejournal.com]

I tend to think that Heaven is the domain of Monty Python songs and 'Weird Al' parodies.