Your street organ repertoire proposals

Collected via the form. I’ve done basic arrangements of around 50 for the configuration that will be available to me and I’ll brush them up when I get hold of the instrument and can try things out. I’ll probably also post a few samples here in the interim. I’m not on Facebook any longer (yep, I’ve fled to G+), so I can’t see what the organ maker is up to, but I understand things are going well.

The Half Rooster project continues to ripen slowly. We had a Spanish dubber round for dinner the other night who helped us quite a lot with the cockerel, and I managed to avoid discussing my princess voice. The musical style has lurched in the general direction of Stravinsky-meets-Desperate-Housewives, or whatever, which seems to go down quite well. The script is holding up, and it has been suggested that the beheading bit and the piss-take of Scheherezade may enable us to sell the show to Saturday morning Saudi-financed Koran schools. The decapitable rooster costume is proving hard work in hot weather, so some rethink may be required. I am under pressure to drop the idea of moving organ, costume and props around on a large transport trike, but since I don’t fancy learning to drive I think I’m safe. And cheap Chinese imitations of Cycles Maximus are apparently on the way.