Douglas J. Cuomo

What You Can Do for the World

What You Can Do for the World is a fun, spirited, light-hearted but meaningful dialog between the two choruses, and between the sections within the choruses. They are sometimes in agreement, sometimes slightly at odds.It is critical that chorus I and chorus II are placed separately on stageso the audience experiences, as much as possible, the sensation of onechorus in their left ear and the other in the right.The hand-offs of parts from chorus to chorus, and from section to section within each chorus, should be seamless, without pauses. The effect should be that of a lively conversation ping-ponging back and forth, keeping the audience guessing where the next line will be coming from.Douglas J. Cuomo, 2018