From n.lowe@rhbnc.ac.uk Sun Jan 14 03:52:33 2001 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id DAA152032 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:52:32 -0800 Received: from mh1.rhul.ac.uk (mh1.rhul.ac.uk [134.219.102.162]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id DAA03974 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:52:31 -0800 Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:52:31 -0800 Received: from [134.219.202.207] (actually host ppp1-7.rhul.ac.uk) by mh1.rhul.ac.uk with SMTP (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:47:05 +0000 X-Sender: cc\uhlc001\n.lowe@exch1.rhbnc.ac.uk Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200101140807.AAA22720@list4.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Nick Lowe Subject: Re: musical Homer There's a 1995 musical by Andrew Gant called Admiral Odysseus: The Story of What Really Happened, published by Kevin Mayhew Ltd (a schools music publisher, I think). Quite witty and tuneful, to judge from glances through. ISBN is 0 86209 695 2 for the full score and 0 86209 696 0 for the words-only edition. (There's even a publisher's phone number on the copyright page, should it be of use: +44 1449 737978, fax +44 1449 737834.) Heather Constantine, an actress who took a Classics degree at University College London, co-wrote a musical based on the Iliad a few years ago. It was a very serious project that at one time seemed close to getting professionally produced; I often wonder what became of it. All I remember was that the big tune was Andromache's song in book 6, which (rather oddly, I thought) closed the first act. Dan Tompkins mentioned the Sirens' song from O Brother, Where Art Thou?, actually voiced by Emmylou Harris, Alison Keith, and someone else wonderful I forget - which gives me the pretext to recommend the soundtrack album as quite the best of the year, though how Odyssean is (like the film) open to interpretation. But "Man of Constant Sorrow" (truly amazing version) is pleasingly apt for an Odyssey soundtrack... Nick Lowe. .