PERFORMANCE NOTES

As you listen to this version of the song, (the track will play twice and then you should hit "refresh") what I liked about it most of all was the audience participation as well as the subject material which is also why "Pearls" is also on the set listing.  An impending war in Iraq and I'll want to scream this song out every chance I get.

One of the traditions in drum and bugle corps is that when the corps moves as a group the percussion section kicks up a cadence. The cadence for this show is this song. The instrumentation will reflect this by only using voice, percussion and bass (preferably stand-up) and piano or bells -- that is, if I can locate a good bell player.  Vocalists will clap an counterpoint percussion lick or be on various percussion instruments.

The groove of this piece will undoubted be expressed in the movement of the cast.  Just as the piece itself asks the big questions, it also calls for solidarity of thought.  The thought being, that as we examine how we relate to the world around us, we all have the great capacity to create change and the capacity to create great positive change. Visually, I would like to create moments when this idea of solidarity is clearly expressed by a tight movement of the entire group around the grid of the playing area.  This piece gets repeated throughout the show in different forms as the questions and the dramatic questions get harder to answer.  

 

WHAT IS A "BELLOPHILE"?

Now, some of you who have already asked what a "bellophile" is?  I don't know, it's not in the Webster or the Oxford.  I've sent an email to the STING site to ask -- so we'll see.  I'm assumng he made it up to rhyme with piles.  That's phine bi mi.  If Shakespeare can make up words then so can STING as far as I'm concerned.  I'm assuming that if you break up the word and go back to it's roots - the answer lies there.  Bello or Bellow is a loud grumbling sound.  Phile is an admirer or one who has interest in something like me the anglophile (all things British)  So Bellophile is someone who likes to moan and groan.  When I get an answer, I will post.

-- incidently -- buy it, It's on the Bring On The Night CD and it's an awesome live album. click on the STINGO link above to take you to AMAZON.  

 

SHEET MUSIC    (COMING SOON as PDF)

Full Score          Vocal Score         Percussion        Bells        Vocalist/Percussion     Movement Diagrams

 

 

 

Workshop Schedule for this song only