Composition Resume

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Piano Music
Full-Length Musicals
Short Musicals
Other Songs
Commercial Recordings
Education

Piano Music

Title	Description	Length	Performances
The Chagall Suite	Eight-movement piano suite inspired by paintings of Marc Chagall (commissioned by Vivian R. Jacobson)	40 minutes	Premiered at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC, February 2007
Conversations	Tribute to Marc Chagall and Elvis Presley incorporating jazz, blues, gospel, rock, klezmer, and Russian classical themes (commissioned by Vivian R. Jacobson)	11 minutes	Performed at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC, February 2007 Premiered at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, August 2005

Full-Length Musicals

Title	Lyricist/librettist	Description	Length	Performances
How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes	Jonathan Karp	Screwball comedy about a U.N. bookstore clerk who can read minds as a result of his being pummeled with Guatemalan melons	1h 30m (1 act)	Produced Off-Broadway at New World Stages, November-December 2006
The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen	Brian Vinero	Adaptation of Lloyd Alexander's novel about the adventures of a prince in ancient China; a fusion of traditional Chinese theatre and American musical comedy	2h 30m (2 acts)	Performed at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, July 2003 "Catching a Cloud" performed at the Donnell Library Songbook series, April 2002 "I Don't Need a Prince" performed for the New York Sheet Music Society, May 2001
Vanity Fair	Brian Vinero	Adaptation of the Thackeray novel about a respectful daughter of well-to-do parents and her friend, a conniving orphan	2h 30m (2 acts)	Staged reading at the Lark Theatre, February 2005 "OK, OK" performed at the Donnell Library Songbook series, April 2002 "A Little Romantic" performed for the New York Sheet Music Society, May 2001
Heart Throb	Jonathan Karp	Original romantic comedy about a pop singer who can make people fall in love, but who hates love songs himself	1h 30m (1 act)	Complete staged reading presented at the Producers' Club, October 2001 "The Boy in the City" and "If I Had the Nerve to Tell You" performed at cabaret events
The Magic Fishbone	Judith Zocchi	A children's musical about a princess who learns to take care of her 18 siblings when her mother falls ill (adapted from the Dickens fairy tale)	1h (1 act)	20-minute excerpt presented at the Algonquin Arts Center, Manasquan, N.J., November 1997
Ordinary People	Seth Weinstein	Adaptation of Judith Guest's novel about a teen who battles depression after his brother's death	2h (2 acts)	Two-week run at the Agassiz Theatre, Cambridge, Mass., May 1996

Short Musicals

Title	Lyricist/librettist	Description	Length	Performances
The Kugelmass Affair	Jonathan Karp	Adaptation of Woody Allen's short-story fantasy about a bored professor who has an affair with Madame Bovary	20m	Performed at DownBeat I, the first new-musicals event of the Musical Writers' Playground, June 1999 Performed at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, June 1997
Matters of the Heart	David Roby	The love story of classical-music composers Robert and Clara Schumann	15m	Performed at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, June 1997

Other Songs

Title	Lyricist	Description	Singers required
"I Just Slept With Hillary Rodham Clinton"	Jonathan Karp	Comic quartet in which the characters express their joy following their recent sexual encounters with the former first lady	4
"Almost"	Jonathan Karp	A look at love's might-have-beens, if "almost" had become reality	1
"The Last Place I Want to Be"	Jonathan Karp	Trio featuring an unlikely meeting of two people who would prefer not to be guests at a wedding	3
"Here I Am"	Brian Vinero	Comic self-indulgent song for a theatre diva (written for Marilyn Sokol)	1
"Deep Eyes"	Lynn Manuell	Up-tempo song showing the power of a silent gaze	1
"I Felt Your Dreams"	Lynn Manuell	A ballad that expresses love's continuity, even when two lovers are apart	1
"Star-Matched Love"	Lynn Manuell	A ballad in which the singer begs for one more chance for the person who should have been her ideal mate	1
"The Mirror"	Lynn Manuell	Self-reflection yields a look at life's promises in this medium-tempo song	1

Commercial Recordings

The Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording of How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes is available from Amazon.com, CCNow, and Colony Records in New York City.

Lynn Manuell's CD, "Return to Love," includes "Deep Eyes," "I Felt Your Dreams," and "Star-Matched Love" (lyrics by Lynn Manuell) and "If I Had the Nerve to Tell You" (from Heart Throb; lyrics by Jonathan Karp).

Education

General: Graduated magna cum laude (AB in music) from Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
Piano: Lily Dumont (Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA) and Sandra Porter-Englehart (Newton, MA)
Theory and composition: Randall Woolf (Boston, MA), Ivan Tcherepnin (Harvard College)
Orchestral conducting: James Yannatos (Harvard College) and Henry Charles Smith (Interlochen, MI)
Choral conducting: Jameson Marvin (Harvard College)