Broadway Swings: Covering the Ensemble in Musical Theatre
Musicians’ careers are multidimensional. Working musicians typically “wear different hats” over the course of their workweek and over the course of their working lives. In talking with most active professional musicians, you will find they have multiple ongoing projects that involve performing, composing, recording, teaching, or other arts-related
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That is, working together in highly orchestrated ways, in sync to rhythmic music, magnifies our sense of solidarity and willingness to cooperate more powerfully than simply the sum of the effects of each separate element. This “orchestrated teamwork effect” likely harnesses our interdependence psychology,
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Billy Strayhorn, Bill Challis, and Sy Oliver, worked almost entirely behind the scenes.