MICHAEL SIROTTA

One. Man. Band.

COMPOSER • CONDUCTOR • ARRANGER • PERFORMER

Last updated 7/13/08

 

  • Engaging compositions & musical arrangements
  • Musical consultation and leadership for performance projects
  • Musical accompaniment for theater, dance, film, or other performance media
  • Music engraving and transcription services

*** COMING SOON ***

PIRATES OF PENZANCE LITE

Available soon for your performing organization: A complete production of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta, adapted for school or community theater groups. The production will include a complete script plus CD tracks of the musical accompaniment. Some operatic arias & recitatives have been reduced to spoken dialogue and other musical renditions simplified to form an easy-to-do version of the comedy that still preserves most of the familar music of this popular score. "Stay tuned" to this web site for future updates, or for more information, contact me at:

MSIRT@SirMuse.com

 


ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Inspired by Lewis Carroll's original dream adventure, this is a theatrical production with song and incidental music that brings to life the surrealistic characterizations and fantasical atmosphere of this universally beloved story. This musical adaptation of Alice was written for performances by a children's theater group, but the play can be performed for "kids of all ages" by adults as well. The score, which ranges in style from pop to opera (without operatic vocal requirements) expresses all the humor, drama and emotional power of this remarkable tale. For more information and musical examples, go here.

"...The lively musical numbers include the calypso-like COO-COO and HAPPY SUMMER DAYS, which reminds us all to treasure the days of our youth. Sirotta's music and cute lyrics captured the spirit of each of the characters..."

...Eileen Siegel, Staten Island Advance

MUSIC NOTATION AND TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES

Need your music in print? SirMuse can provide quality print-outs for every musical endeavor. Notation services include copying, ear transcriptions from CD's or audio files (mp3's, .wavs, etc.) and transpositions for vocalists. Whether you require a simple lead sheet or a full score, your final product is professional-looking, publication-ready, completed with speed and accuracy, and may be shipped as sheet music or sent in digital formats via the internet. Please email SirMuse for specifics. All engraving is done with FINALE by MakeMusic™.

For notation samples click on any of the three images below. These demonstrate a variety of musical score and sheet music engraving styles that SirMuse can render for you in print. They are in .pdf format - you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print the score (the screen images you will see may be of lower quality on some monitors* than the printout which will always be of publication quality on printers 600 DPI and greater).

*(also, Acrobat sometimes rasters the Jazz font of the 2nd example strangely on screen at certain zoom levels. A change of zoom level or any other screen refreshing method in Acrobat corrects this for all zoom levels)

 

Score sample

Sample of Dithyramb Score

To hear this entire work,CLICK HERE


Inquiries: MSIRT@SirMuse.com



MICHAEL'S MUSIC

(Click the clefs to play the 1st two samples: will open in new window)

DITHYRAMB* for Flute and Piano (.mp3, 7.2 mb; Duration: 6 min., 11 secs.)
(a performance score is available with individual flute part)

(*an ancient Greek song form, wildly ecstatic and enthusiastic)

FANDANGO MODALE (piano solo, .mp3, 4.74 mb)
(a performance score is available)

DIONYSOS FILIUS DEI
Conceived & directed by Ellen Stewart
Music by Elizabeth Swados, Michael Sirotta, Sheila Dabny & Genji Ito
LaMama/Great Jones Repertory Company at the
Taipei International Theater Festival, October, 2006

Video excerpt:
Prologue: Music composed by Michael Sirotta

(Quicktime required to view video - get it here)
Seen in this clip:
Dancers: Denise Greber, Allison Hiroto, Kazuma Motomura, Shegeko Suga, Kat Yew
Musicians: Heather Paauwe, violin solo; Yukio Tsuji, percussion; Michael Sirotta, musical director
with the voice of Benjamin Marcantoni, counter tenor

 

ELSEWHERE ON THIS SITE

Portfolio of Digital (MIDI) Arrangements

Music Formats and Methods of Distribution

Client comment from Stephen v2, founder of OUTSIDE IN FILMS and creator of OUTSIDE IN,
a new independent film:

After exchanging some emails with Michael and hearing some samples of his work, for a very,very reasonable fee, he supplied (me) with an incredible version based on the original score ...

...So now I have my guide track. If you ever need some quality help with classical music, I highly recommend Sir Muse.

 

Email SirMuse: MSIRT@SirMuse.com for more information. All comments most welcome.

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