When the President of the United State met his untimely death at the height of his power, I was forced to flee along with some rather important people from the Southern states along with....several monstrously large mudpuppies. Grace to a shipping container, we managed to escape, site unseen, to Spain.
We arrived to Spain on a rather hot and rather ordinary day. We looked vey funny to the ordinary Spanish people. My companions in flight were still dressed in the everyday togs of the deep South. But it was the mudpuppies that made quite a sensation. FIrst of all they were ushered quickly to the colesseum where they had the bullfights. You can imagine that they caused quite a stir there. There was one incident when a man who had fallen in debt was being forced to become a matador and fight the famously enraged and very dangerous bulls. He had never seen a bull so when he arrived to the arena and was lead to fight a mudpuppy, he assumed it was the fierce bull. The mudpuppies were very confused and very dangerously upset. They were extremely large with a gaping mouth and huge teeth and looked very unappetizing. It took a while for the truth to come out. I of course was not the only witness to the events. A gentleman who had he profession of a pupetter and had his own theatre and created his own puppets was very amused and intrigued by the series of events. he decided to write a whole play about what he had seen featuring among other things, myself and brand new puppets of mudpuppies. It was called, I believe, Caroline and the mudpuppies. And I don't remember exactly under what circumstances it happened, but I was commisioned to write the musical score.
The opening day of the performance came and as is ususal for tradtional puppet shows in Europe, the puppeteer set up his theatre outside in a public square with a lot of people and the play began. I must have already been educated with the Royal children because my music was greeted with much enthusiasm. So much so, that it was felt that the music was not fit for a relatively simple children's puppet show with felt mudpuppies and a rather unflattering puppet portrait of myself. Nor did it do well with children's theatre. it was felt that the music was made much more for a distinguished genre of music. It was actually kept intact but adapted to a scenerio that would eventually become the very famous and successful opera by Bizet called Carmen. I have an excerpt from the opera with the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_HHRJf0xg
but let me lay the musical score on you without the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9al5anjR4
Because I composed that song for the mudpuppies. You have to get out of the box and imagine a very hot day somewhere near a body of water with steam on top of it. I would slow the music down a bit and make it slow and dreamy. And out of the vapour, the steam, appears, another apparation that would, to a budding gourmet, appear just as tempting and improbable as the seductive Carmen appear to Don José. It is a giant mudpuppie, with the ability to produce giant eggs. Very valuable that would bring in alot of money.
Now it seems very improbable. Bizet's Carmen character is a tough act to beat. But the truth is, the original musical score was written for a puppet show featuring a story that really happened but starring some rather unsavoury looking mudpuppies.
Incidently, I know that if you watch T.V, you might actually score a children's show that features the actual scenario with the puppets. I did. But I can't find it on Youtube and you will have to just take my word for it for the moment.
We arrived to Spain on a rather hot and rather ordinary day. We looked vey funny to the ordinary Spanish people. My companions in flight were still dressed in the everyday togs of the deep South. But it was the mudpuppies that made quite a sensation. FIrst of all they were ushered quickly to the colesseum where they had the bullfights. You can imagine that they caused quite a stir there. There was one incident when a man who had fallen in debt was being forced to become a matador and fight the famously enraged and very dangerous bulls. He had never seen a bull so when he arrived to the arena and was lead to fight a mudpuppy, he assumed it was the fierce bull. The mudpuppies were very confused and very dangerously upset. They were extremely large with a gaping mouth and huge teeth and looked very unappetizing. It took a while for the truth to come out. I of course was not the only witness to the events. A gentleman who had he profession of a pupetter and had his own theatre and created his own puppets was very amused and intrigued by the series of events. he decided to write a whole play about what he had seen featuring among other things, myself and brand new puppets of mudpuppies. It was called, I believe, Caroline and the mudpuppies. And I don't remember exactly under what circumstances it happened, but I was commisioned to write the musical score.
The opening day of the performance came and as is ususal for tradtional puppet shows in Europe, the puppeteer set up his theatre outside in a public square with a lot of people and the play began. I must have already been educated with the Royal children because my music was greeted with much enthusiasm. So much so, that it was felt that the music was not fit for a relatively simple children's puppet show with felt mudpuppies and a rather unflattering puppet portrait of myself. Nor did it do well with children's theatre. it was felt that the music was made much more for a distinguished genre of music. It was actually kept intact but adapted to a scenerio that would eventually become the very famous and successful opera by Bizet called Carmen. I have an excerpt from the opera with the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_HHRJf0xg
but let me lay the musical score on you without the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9al5anjR4
Because I composed that song for the mudpuppies. You have to get out of the box and imagine a very hot day somewhere near a body of water with steam on top of it. I would slow the music down a bit and make it slow and dreamy. And out of the vapour, the steam, appears, another apparation that would, to a budding gourmet, appear just as tempting and improbable as the seductive Carmen appear to Don José. It is a giant mudpuppie, with the ability to produce giant eggs. Very valuable that would bring in alot of money.
Now it seems very improbable. Bizet's Carmen character is a tough act to beat. But the truth is, the original musical score was written for a puppet show featuring a story that really happened but starring some rather unsavoury looking mudpuppies.
Incidently, I know that if you watch T.V, you might actually score a children's show that features the actual scenario with the puppets. I did. But I can't find it on Youtube and you will have to just take my word for it for the moment.
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