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Olly the Composer

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Who composes the music for a play?

This year, the composer of the music for Romeo and Juliet is OLLY FOX. Olly talked to us all about music at the globe, including:

- what the composer does;

- how the composer and the director work together;

- how the composer and the choreographer work together;

- what the music is like in this production

- where the band who play the music come from ;

- why the Globe is such a unique place for music ;

- how he got into composing.

What does the job of the composer involve?

The job of the composer is to write all the music for the production.

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How do the composer and the director work together?

The director is the first point in the process; almost always in my experience it is the direc

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How do the composer and the choreographer work together?

The relationship between the music and the dances is like the chicken and the egg – who choo

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What is the music like in this production?

We’ve come up with the idea of the Prologue singing these few lines by Marlowe, and also the

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Where does the band come from who plays the music?

The band is a mixture of people I’ve worked with before and people that the Globe has worked

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Why is the Globe such a unique space for music?

I think the Globe demands that you grab the audience’s attention.

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How did you get into composing?

I came to music through a strange route (or at least, I like to think it's stranger than it pr

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