Feb 2022 orchestration film score whimsical imagination
An opening piece perhaps, for a drama or film adaptation? Come on! Who didn't believe in fairies when they were very young?
The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 9. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine. Doyle, as a spiritualist, was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of psychic phenomena. Public reaction was mixed; some accepted the images as genuine, others believed that they had been faked.
@halfwayhome Mar 2022
Wonderous composition - it's a wonder why film-makers bring in the composer towards the end, this music is bringing pictures to life before now, let the music create the images!
The shapes and voicing in this composition feel so inventive, how the music develops from the opening to the final phrase in such a short time frame, yet it travels soooo far. I realise I lucky I am to get away with just repeating the same bar of music over and over.....
@roddy Feb 2022
Beautiful music. You develop it very well from start to finish. Excellent choice of instruments for your arrangement. This would certainly be very good for film or TV drama.
@donna Feb 2022
What do you mean 'Who didn't believe in fairies when they were very young'? Are you saying you don't put out a wee bowl of milk and bread for the faerie folk at night? (-:
Lovely orchestration. Such gentle, reflective music, yet with charming flourishes. Very nice, Billy.
@dock Feb 2022
Your orchestration is beautiful. I've been watching Guy Michelmore and I can only seem to do 8 bars of it! lol You paint quite a full scene. I like the way it constantly changes yet keeps to the feeling of the scene. Bravo.
@oswlek Feb 2022
Nice visual piece. It is easy to imagine seeing (or being) a critter gently flitting about, being playfully swept up in the breeze. Thanks for sharing.