I saw High School Musical 3 at Disney Land last week; liked what I heard and took my daughter to the HSM3 movie the next day and then on the following day saw the show again in Disney Land. Now, until then I had never really taken that series seriously- although my 14 year old son had watched it so many times on Dish Network that I thought it was a weekly series. But now that I have heard it, I am impressed by the orchestration and arrangement of all the parts. Somebody had to understand the music very thoroughly to accomplish what I was hearing. So for Mike Dunbar or others who may be acquainted with the level of talent that can pull of these wonderful arrangements, how do you learn to do that? What I am taking about is not just a melody line and harmony, but counter melodies, witty variations and instrument choices that make the piece come alive and allow the choreography jump off the stage. It is such an interesting marriage of music, story and choreography that it seems to be an entirely new form of art. I saw a little of this in Grease and Hairspray and of course Jackson's Thriller. It is so complex and interwoven; you know that it doesn't happen by accident. Someone is thinking this all out. Something magical is happening at the intersection of craft and reckless abandon. What is that craft?

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein