Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music a…

- Jeff Britting

The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I moved to New York and …

- Jeff Britting

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, someti…

- Jeff Britting

Actually, one Anthem cue is a good example of the process. There is a four-minute sequence of music in Anthem, which underscores a prison sequence, a…

- Jeff Britting

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-div…

- Jeff Britting

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition…

- Jeff Britting

I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when…

- Jeff Britting

Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the no…

- Jeff Britting

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the mu…

- Jeff Britting