Peter Bufano ran away to join the circus more than 20 years ago, making over 1000 appearances as a clown for Ringling Brothers, Circus Smirkus, and others. But he’s no longer just clowning around; today, he composes and plays accordion with his gypsy/klezmer-inspired circus music ensemble Cirkestra. According to Bufano, writing scores for the circus poses unique challenges:
“Often I have a month to write two hours of music. And it has to be flexible. It’s not like Broadway where you’re playing the same thing every night. Some nights the guys jumping through the fiery hoop make it and some nights they don’t, but the music has to keep going.”
(MP3 removed at artist’s request.)
2 Comments:
Ah, good old-fashioned lyric-less awesomeness.
by Clayton on February 19th, 2009
That’s too bad the artist asked you to remove the song. I wanted to hear it! :(
by Emily on February 23rd, 2009