I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and/or holidays. It's great that such a holiday that spans over 4000 years in origin is still celebrated. I will tell about one of the coolest presents I ever got in my next posting.

I have been working on the trailer music for "Red Sister Red" . Yesterday I got some more guidance on the orchestration for it. The sounds of it is going to be very Irish which I think will translate pretty well on film.

I saw on the news that Boston is becoming the North Eastern Hollywood. Last year more than 8 major films were shot in the area. This year there is about 10 or 15 that will be in production around the area. It's great news considering the film industry here was nearly dead 4 years ago.

Sweeney Todd is an excellent film. I was exposed to Stephen Sondheim's work when I was working for an opera company in High School. (oh wow he is still alive today I didn't know that) ,,, so at the time I hated...HATED Sondheim. it was the song "Johanna " that is in it that drove me nuts. I had trouble playing it at the time and the music director would have fits that I made mistakes during rehearsals for it (I was playing the piano for their rehearsals and auditions). I just hated that one song because I never liked the 3 notes that are used in the Jo-han-na. I would have used a different set of three notes. The company I worked for loved his work though and I kept playing it and playing it. I really don't have such a hatred for the music now so I liked the movie. The imagery of it was wonderful and some of the scenes felt like it was lifted straight out of an Edward Gorey Illustration .