#daniel hart

the lead violin's flowing and beautiful melody is consistent throughout the entire piece - to me it is so representative of lestat's enduring soul. you can still hear it almost fighting for dominance amidst the increasing volume of the rest of the orchestra!! they are in a back and forth dialogue (or even argument) with each other. however, no matter the short, sharp and almost jarring synchronic phrases of the other instruments, the lead violin is powerful and assured; it is not even a competition of who will outlast the other. where the orchestra interrupts, the lead violin has a long, slow melody that always reclaims focus. although, it is also worth noting that not only does the violin outlast, it, and the ensemble, play together in harmony. this feels like a representation of lestat finally facing his failures head on.

This season largely used Daniel’s talents as a musician and lyricist to create the big rock star feel of TVL from the books while still incorporating his style from the first two seasons. Many song have some kind of reference from the actual novel and some songs are so detailed that it left book readers astounded.

Big Boss, Your Biggest Fan, The Loneliness, are among some of the most book heavy songs in the season. Daniel really studied the book and made songs that would fit the scenes that were given to him. Other songs like Why Do I Have To Feel? carry on the themes from the last two seasons while Hit The Lights (Bare Bones) and the musical score of La Fontaine De Sang expresses Lestat’s complex trauma surrounding his family of origin. Daniel understood the assignment and absolutely delivered.

If the writers didn’t have their agenda and put as much effort into their writing as Daniel put into his songs, then this season would have absolutely fucking soared.

"Right before that sign-off, the season also technically wraps up with the lead-up to the vampire concert, and Rolin also happened to mention to me that he's sitting on the best song from you that we haven't heard yet.

HART: What a responsibility for that song to now carry for however long it takes before anybody hears that song. What a crazy thing for Rolin Jones to say. How could any song possibly live up to that kind of hype? I don't know. But I did write a song for the concert, back when the concert was going to be a part of Season 3, and it exists, but we never recorded it. Before we started recording things for the end of the season, the pieces got moved around the board, and then we knew there wasn't going to be a concert, so we never recorded it. It exists."

So what I'm hearing is the finale was originally supposed to end with The Big Concert?