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dixie standards restyled for for a
cool '50s-like jazz quartet, while
The Number 14 saw Macaulay
electronically sampling bus noises
before turning them into a score.

“The music must be right. tf
the director does not feel it is
working with the action on stage
then | have to change it,” he says
emphatically.

“When I first read The
Rainmaker | guess | was in a bad
mood. | read it as a dark kind of
play and my first idea was viola
and piano. Then I saw the
readthrough and the actors read it
as a very funny show and | said
‘No. Guitar and harmonica would
be great.’

“So it changes based on what |
hear and what I see. Change the
actors and it would change how |
might write the music for a
show.”

Macauley says he couldn't see
the advantage to the Jessie award
earlier this summer.

“| wasn’t going to go to the
ceremony, just like | didn’t want
to go to my high school grad and
my university grad, but my mum

made me.

“| don’t consider these things
to be achievements. Achievement
is getting something on stage.”

However, the theatre commu-
nity’s formal recognition of
Macaulay's talent (the awards are
decided by working, professionals)
has meant that next season’s work
is aiready being booked.

“All the gigs ( got last year
were four to six weeks in advance
of opening the show. ‘Oh, we for-
got to get music. Call Doug. He'll
do it.’

“Now I'm getting six months’
lead time and setting my own
budget instead of pleading for that
extra $100. Quite shocking and
quite pleasant actually.”

Plans on the go include the
score for an independent film
Climbing the Angry Mask to be
released in Japan and orchestra-
tions for a Christmas Pops
Concert for the Prince George
Symphony.

Ancther original score for bag-
pipes and orchestra will premiére
with the West Vancouver Youth
Band (WVYB) with whom
Macaulay is about to start his sec-
ond year as musica} director.

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“My heart's really into that
right now. | just really love that
job. What a wonderful proup of
kids. These are kids who, just Jike
those in the North Vancouver
Youth Band, want to be there.

“They are not there because it
is an easy elective at school. They
love music and they want to
play.”

The WVYB had 21 teenagers
enrolled in the senior band when
Macaulay started last year. That
figure had risen to 29 by the end
of the season and he is anticipat-
ing 40 students this September.

Macaulay's slower mode
returns as he gazes into the future
of a growing Vancouver enter-
tainment scene and the musical
possilyilities inherent ir the arrival
of Garth Drabinsky’s new theatre.

“| worry that if things go too far
too fast | might not be able to
teach anymore and that would be
a real heartbreak for me.

“(| want all of it on my terms
and I'm not good at settling for
second best.”

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