This week, Sandbox Percussion is in San Pedro, California working on GALILEO – a new show produced by The Industry with music by Andy Akiho and libretto/direction by Yuval Sharon.
GALILEO is somewhere in between an opera and a play. Yuval has translated and adapted Bertolt Brecht’s play Life of Galileo, and Andy has written an entirely new score to accompany it. There’s dialogue, instrumental music, as well as arias and songs throughout. The four of us join an incredible trio of drummers from the LA Taiko Institute, plus a small chamber orchestra and a chorus. All of the performers surround a huge fire sculpture designed by Liz Glynn.