You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
4.53 AVERAGE
4.53 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
informative
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
LOVED THIS! I listened to the songs, while reading the book, for me it was so great to see the progress of the song writing. I went to the musical afterwards and loved the details mention in the book (blowing out of the candle, the 'I do's', and overall orpheus character!).
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
normally don’t rate non fiction but yes yes yes yes for writing process!!!! Anais Mitchell speaks to me
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I first found Hadestown (and Anaïs Mitchell) with the studio album in late 2010 when I was in college. I've loved both ever since.
Working on a Song isn't just the lyrics of the show in it's broadway form, but a chronicling of the numerous rewrites and revisions a project takes over more than a decade. It's an insight into a magnum opus, that as a writer you have to prude elements you love for the good of the whole. Maybe you'll never be finished.
In that sense, Working on a Song is fascinating in hearing the artists process in their own words. I myself hold particular reverence for the studio album version of a lot of these songs since that is the version I lived with for so long myself, and attached a lot of memories to. Working on a Song is a rare insight in walking through those changes with the creator, and their love for all versions.
But of course I shouldn't overlook the subtitle of this book, the lyrics of Hadestown. Anaïs Mitchell is a supremely talented poet, lyricist, and storyteller. Even in just the written form, the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone leaves you needing a moment.
Truly, a masterpiece.
Working on a Song isn't just the lyrics of the show in it's broadway form, but a chronicling of the numerous rewrites and revisions a project takes over more than a decade. It's an insight into a magnum opus, that as a writer you have to prude elements you love for the good of the whole. Maybe you'll never be finished.
In that sense, Working on a Song is fascinating in hearing the artists process in their own words. I myself hold particular reverence for the studio album version of a lot of these songs since that is the version I lived with for so long myself, and attached a lot of memories to. Working on a Song is a rare insight in walking through those changes with the creator, and their love for all versions.
But of course I shouldn't overlook the subtitle of this book, the lyrics of Hadestown. Anaïs Mitchell is a supremely talented poet, lyricist, and storyteller. Even in just the written form, the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone leaves you needing a moment.
Truly, a masterpiece.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced