A Music Director's Epic Tale: Les Miserables
Chapter 8 : Performing The Show And Beyond
8.3 - Additional References
As if you didn't have enough to read already on this website, here is a collection of some more information
on various aspects that were touched upon in my notes.
- Official MTI site for Les
Miserables School Edition
- Special resources to help putting
on the show: character spreadsheet, show shirts, enhanced study guide and sound effects CD.
- The official website of the musical.
- An excellent blog,
with plenty of follow up by others, by a musical director (Alex Tirrell) who compiled notes & discussed
specific issues with finding/creating the keyboard patches.
- Project Gutenberg original story by Victor Hugo, translated
into English, in various reading formats.
- Project Gutenberg also has the complete story in the original French:
- Guernsey's website about Victor Hugo
- Official website of John Cameron, who was the
arranger and conductor of the original concept album, and the creator of the first synth patches
for the show.
- If you want to learn more about MIDI:
- The basics for those
with little to no exposure/experience to using MIDI (great website for a lot of technical
music things)
- The Official MIDI specs for those
that want to dive a lot deeper!