Ode to King Kong: (Beethoven’s 9th). I write these silly lyrics to help kids with rhythm and note-values. It works! :-)
King Kong was a giant monkey
Who behaved just like a jerk
He fell in love with a human
Even though it couldn’t work
He climbed to the top of a building
Ready to enjoy a feast
Then the airplanes shot him down
they said twas Beauty killed the Beast.
I’d love to hear the rest of your Freud lyrics! LOL!
This is a mixture of hard rock, Orff, Ravel and Prokofiev, an attempt to portray evil. Judas spends his aria explaining why he is going to betray his leader, hoping to find some justification for it, and trying to convince himself that he’s doing the right thing. This is some of Rice’s best work in the opera. Annas and Caiaphas cut through all the excuses and put it in simple commercial terms: thirty pieces of silver. The musical material is from “This Jesus Must Die”. After a recitative from Judas, a crowd of shrouded figures sings quietly like a Greek chorus.