Description

Actor Kurtwood Smith plays AHAB! on STORMWORKS... Chapter 2 CD. This provides an outstanding model for the Actor in your collaboration.

From the Pagan-like chanting of the driving poly-rhythms to the moments of Soul-Stilling calm, to the dramatic death and resurrection, AHAB! is a dynamic, wide-ranged, quickly accessible, always changing Musical journey.

AHAB! is a new-to-our-idiom undertaking composed for ACTOR, not narrator, and Band of the 3rd Millennium! It provides opportunity to combine departments and explore a New medium!

There is a Music Only Version as well.

Please visit the Score and Score Notes for more detailed information.

This piece is from the STORMWORKS... Chapter TWO CD.

Testimonials

"What can one say that hasn't already been said about the POWER of your MUSIC!?!?! I was really moved by your personal message in the CD Booklet... as always, you more than any other composer allow us to share your music WITH YOU on a very personal level. The MUSIC is amazing!!! It's hard to hold back the tears! The harp and pad bass sound perfect!!! The organ sound in Meggido is very cool too! The First and the Last / AHAB / "I" / and Plato's Cave are unbelievable - I can't find the words to describe my emotions.... however, YOU seem to find the words as easily as you find the notes! It's as much fun to read the CD jacket and the STORMWatch's as it is to listen to the MUSIC! The cover is extremely cool! - IT, in itself says... "Life, Death and Life AGAIN!" The symbolism and imagery is very powerful!! AND.... David seems bigger than ever to me!" -Keith Hodgson, New Jersey

"WOW - the section of AHAB from ... "I blow out the last fear...." for the next 4 minutes of the WORK that is about the BEST music I have ever heard Steve! - The descending horn line just RIPS the heart out - until Kurtwood says... unless God DOES that beating!!, DOES that thinking!!, DOES that living!! NOT I ! - Steve - this IS AMAZING!!!" -A PS from Keith Hodgson, New Jersey

"Steve has done it again. His Chapter Two CD is awesome. This is phenomenal music. The power and the drama that have come to be expected from Melillo's art are all here and much, much, more. "Ahab" for actor and band is a masterpiece of the highest order. The interaction between actor and band is superb. It will draw you into the story and hold you spellbound every step of the way. Get to know this groundbreaking addition to the wind band repertoire. The Rundfunk Blasorchester Leipzig gives a stellar performance under Melillo's direction as does actor Kurtwood Smith as Ahab himself!" -Aldo Rafael Forte, Composer

"I was working from 3:00am -12:00pm (MST:Melillo Standard Time) as I listened. Well Steve, I'm completely speechless. There are no words to describe STORMWORKS II. Only two words come to mind. "Divine Intervention". It was as though I was hearing God's voice through your music. There were tracks that just moved me to tears. And Ahab.... AWESOME!!!" -Curt DeMott, Composer

"Steve, Received the "packet of stuff" in the mail yesterday. I want to tell you that I absolutely love the CD! I cannot stop listening to it (it's in the computer as I type). I have heard some of the pieces on a cassette that you sent me a few years ago but NOT LIKE THIS!!!!! What a fantastic sounding ensemble!!! My hat is off to you and the ensemble, this is the best CD yet!!!" -Andrew Hall, Fruitport, Michigan

"I heartily recommend the new Chapter TWO CD of Stephen Melillo. It contains masterful work with the fresh sounds that Melillo has brought to the wind literature." -Dr. Francis McBeth, Composer

"Yesterday I received the package. Thanks! Great STORMRom! Chapter II, YOU DID IT AGAIN, my Friend!!! And again, I cannot find words to describe this Godlike Music! I am deeply Touched! I had to cry while playing By Love Inviolate. I don't know why, but somehow Your Music always remembers me on my Dad, who past away 5 years ago. He would have loved Your music. I played Escape from Plato's Cave a little bit too loud in my office yesterday. Next door was a big Board-meeting, I didn't knew there were people there.... At the end of the Piece there was silence... and when I looked around, they were all standing behind me applauding for Your Music!!! And what a GREAT Musicians!" -Sjaak Haasnoot, Buhrmann The Netherlands