A contemplative contemporary instrumental orchestra piece with a haunting piano lead line. A work in progress for the feature film ,MORAL OBLIGATION a screenplay in development by Bright Shining City Productions.

When Maggie Dances

Theme music for the Feature film drama Moral Obligation a screenplay in development by Bright Shining City Productions.  James Young, an internationally renowned composer, struggles to finish his life’s masterwork. His life crashes down around him when he discovers he has terminal bone cancer, and his wife of twenty five years, Maggie, has a young lover. James turns from his marriage and his work and admits himself into the Hotel Charonne – a medically assisted suicide facility. Maggie must choose between her lover, Michael, and her obligation to not let her lifetime partner die alone. In the end, Maggie’s devotion to James restores his faith in his passion for music.  With renewed inspiration, he is able to complete his final concerto, and Maggie is able to help grant James his final wish – to die with dignity. A poignant, reflective and controversial story filled with visual and auditory poetry.  The featured orchestral piece, “When Maggie Dances”, culminates in an emotional tribute to a deep mature love that forgives all. 

“We are called to be architects of our dying, not its victims.”  --- Buckminster Fulle

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