SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - THE MUSICAL

You never know what is going to show up in the old Email from day to day. Usually, the audio files that comes in are pieces we have already heard, but every so often, in the ocean of liquid shit known as my Inbox a li'l gem floats to the surface. Today, that gem was in the form of Silence of the Lambs: The Musical. Here's all you need to know about the guys, straight from their online BIO:
Brothers Jon and Al Kaplan moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to study concert composition at USC. After surviving three brutal years under the film music-hating faculty, they finally made it to the film scoring program, where they studied under industry legends like Elmer Bernstein, David Raksin, Leonard Rosenman and Christopher Young. While that was fun, it means absolutely nothing, first because some of those guys aren't legends; second because there wasn't really any "studying" going on; and third because every person who does the USC program takes lecture classes with those composers and lists them on their bio to make themselves seem impressive.

We do want to be film composers, but it's difficult to break into the industry. There's a lot of competition, and unless you meet or fuck the right person, you'll end up answering phones, orchestrating for someone terrible, or if you're really lucky, ghostwriting -- at least there can be some money in that. But that doesn't really concern us. If we wanted to make money, we would have gone to Dental school. Which we would have were we smart enough. We want to write film music because we love film music. We are especially fond of good film music. The following is something you don't often see in a bio, but here are some of the reasons we love film music: John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Howard Shore, Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri and some of those Newmans. Here are a few dead reasons we love film music: Alex North, Jerry Fielding, Bernard Herrmann and Miklos Rozsa. Finally, here are several might-as-well-be dead reasons: Arthur B. Rubenstein, Michael Small, David Shire, Bruce Broughton, Basil Poledouris and Craig Safan.

We also love musicals -- especially Ashman and Menken's Disney stuff, Leslie Bricusse's Scrooge, and South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. Our latest project, Silence! Silence of the Lambs: The Musical is a labor of love. And it's a good thing it was, because we sure as hell never get to write any music as a labor of money. But in truth, Silence! wasn't labor at all. We had a wonderful time doing it, and as we wrote it for our own amusement, we're surprised that more than 10 people have heard it.

In closing, our father always told us that the mouth is the most disgusting orifice on the human body. He was a dentist before he died, but he ran his practice into the ground because he hated the human mouth so vehemently. Instead, he followed his heart and went back to teaching music to children. This brings us to our most important point: If you work hard, persevere, and follow your dreams, you will eventually die and turn into a skeleton like daddy.

By the way, we did score the Saturn (Sci Fi) Awards Show last year -- our fee was our getting to sit at the same table with Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She will be 18 soon.