Hard Right at New York's DiMenna Center

Is it possible to be inspired by evil? Of course it is? Would Shostakovich have been Shostakovich without Stalin? Would Benjamin Britten have written his War Requiem without war? Would Tchikovsky have written Swan Lake without an evil sorcerer? And now it's my turn for inspiration from the dark side., i. e. the U.S. Republican Party.

Hard Right, my satyrical suite for chamber orchestra, was written in record time (for me). It will be premiered by Joshua Rosenblum and the Pit Stop Players, a wonderful collection of musicians from Broadway's pit orchestras, at The DiMenna Center in NYC on this Monday, Oct. 29 at 7:30
http://rosenblummusic.com/pitstop.html

This is a Halloween Concert, and the scariest thing I could think of was the Republican Party.

The movements are:

1. Circus March (Stump speech)
2. Hymn to Hypocrisy
3. Waltzing Mitt-ilda
4. Trickle Down Tango
5. Tea party Trot and Gallop

This suite may form the nucleus of a political cabaret, also to be called Hard Right, or, if the Republicans win, The Resistance. I figure the satire that the Republicans spout can be used verbatim as my text.

Last week's Time Out New York had a great article on the Renaissance of Cabaret in NYC. Here are some of the venues they mention:

• Joe's Pub
• Birdland
• Ars Nova
• Le Poisson Rouge
• Therapy
• XL
• Flute
• Cutting Room
• Beechman
• The Met Room
• Don't Tell Mama
• Triad

As well, last week there was a Cabaret Convention at the Rose Theater.

Comments are welcome, even from Republicans.