The Event

In completion of my thesis project for a master’s degree in music composition, I will be writing, recording, videoing, and editing an original 60-minute musical. The musical, entitled “The Event,” is a musical and philosophical exploration of humanity’s relationship with its home planet. Through a series of thematically related vignettes, the musical orbits a single question: if humans were trapped on Earth, would our behavior change?

Giving us a throughline in the discussion of the ensuing questions is our narrator, a kind of “every man” representing different facets of the human/planet relationship. Through his involvement in each song, we aim to elicit hope, loss, conflict, confusion, frustration, irony, doom, and regret.