Conversations with William M. Hoffman: Adam Guettel, "Light in the Piazza" (Pt. 2 of 2)

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Continuing my observation from part one: I'm struck, so to speak, at how Adam Geuttel illustrates the word "pop" by motioning as if playing a kit, left hand on the snare back-beat, right crossed over the left for the hi-hat, without ever verbally mentioning drums at all. He conveys a very particular and specific sense of the term that way, but it's funny how he continually resorts to this sort of thing because he's really not by any means inarticulate.