Article: Jonathan Tunick finding the fit: America's best-known orchestrator marries the musical sounds to the story. (Profiles).(theatre music orchestration)(Interview)

Ever wondered what South Pacific's "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame" would sound like rearranged as a stripper number? To find out, you'd need to hire a studio orchestrator or arranger, someone who could follow a nutty concept for an album. But if you are working on a new musical, you will need to employ an even more specific kind of talent. The particular job of the theatrical orchestrator is to flesh out a brand new score: to examine the piano chords and vocal line that a composer writes and then go about assigning the notes to various instruments. Orchestrators are also sometimes called upon to give a newly minted burnish to an old score.

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