Heartbreaker - Marc Webster
Composed/Produced by Marc Webster
Violin Shannon Reilly, Rap Glory
Audio and video by Marc Webster at Blue on Blue Recording Studio
Released January, 2019
This piece is set as a lover’s quarrel between the rapper and a violinist. The rapper, full of bravado announces he's just a heartbreaker and she just has to accept that, and the violinist plays back her response, which is basically "hell no".
After the opening statements the piece develops as a battle - the rapper raps 4 bars, then violinist plays back 4 bars, trading back and forth, each trying to outdo the other. The argument becomes increasingly chaotic, until it self destructs, and out of the dust comes a love song.
The love song lyrics are from a 14th century Italian love sonnet and are sung by a tenor, representing the rappers innermost thoughts. The lyrics tell how one Sunday morning he went to church and saw the most beautiful girl and fell truly, deeply, in love. The love song turns into a tango, which becomes more and more assertive, until it transforms into the opening argument theme. The lyrics have been switched up for their reconciliation, except he can't help throwing in that he's still a heartbreaker, and of course she doesn't take it, which looks like it’s going to lead to another argument, and probably another love songs and another reconciliation, but that's another song.
Ultimately, Heartbreaker is a piece about fighting with a person you love. It’s about the contradictions and emotions that happen in such a fight. And it’s about the power of music to communicate, sometime even more powerfully than words.
Violin Shannon Reilly, Rap Glory
Concertino: Violin Holly Workman, Viola Josh Lohner, Cello Lars Kirvan, Bass Eric Polenik , Tenor Pablo Bustos, Dance Travis Widrick, Dance Melissa Parkhust
Ripieno: Violin Liana Koteva Kirvan, Violin Aika Ito Violin, Ellen Sonnenberg, Violin Julie Gray, Viola Neil Miller, Cello Andy Barnhart, Bass Drew Bunson, Harpsichord Marc Webster
Additional video by Dan Finklestein, Makeup and additional artistic direction for Shannon/Glory by Diana Elena Alvarez
Violin Shannon Reilly, Rap Glory
Audio and video by Marc Webster at Blue on Blue Recording Studio
Released January, 2019
This piece is set as a lover’s quarrel between the rapper and a violinist. The rapper, full of bravado announces he's just a heartbreaker and she just has to accept that, and the violinist plays back her response, which is basically "hell no".
After the opening statements the piece develops as a battle - the rapper raps 4 bars, then violinist plays back 4 bars, trading back and forth, each trying to outdo the other. The argument becomes increasingly chaotic, until it self destructs, and out of the dust comes a love song.
The love song lyrics are from a 14th century Italian love sonnet and are sung by a tenor, representing the rappers innermost thoughts. The lyrics tell how one Sunday morning he went to church and saw the most beautiful girl and fell truly, deeply, in love. The love song turns into a tango, which becomes more and more assertive, until it transforms into the opening argument theme. The lyrics have been switched up for their reconciliation, except he can't help throwing in that he's still a heartbreaker, and of course she doesn't take it, which looks like it’s going to lead to another argument, and probably another love songs and another reconciliation, but that's another song.
Ultimately, Heartbreaker is a piece about fighting with a person you love. It’s about the contradictions and emotions that happen in such a fight. And it’s about the power of music to communicate, sometime even more powerfully than words.
Violin Shannon Reilly, Rap Glory
Concertino: Violin Holly Workman, Viola Josh Lohner, Cello Lars Kirvan, Bass Eric Polenik , Tenor Pablo Bustos, Dance Travis Widrick, Dance Melissa Parkhust
Ripieno: Violin Liana Koteva Kirvan, Violin Aika Ito Violin, Ellen Sonnenberg, Violin Julie Gray, Viola Neil Miller, Cello Andy Barnhart, Bass Drew Bunson, Harpsichord Marc Webster
Additional video by Dan Finklestein, Makeup and additional artistic direction for Shannon/Glory by Diana Elena Alvarez