What You Can Do for the World

What You Can Do for the World is a fun, spirited, light-hearted but meaningful dialog between the two choruses, and between the sections within the choruses. They are sometimes in agreement, sometimes slightly at odds. It is critical that chorus I and chorus II are placed separately on stage so the audience experiences, as much as possible, the sensation of one chorus in their left ear and the other in the right. The hand-offs of parts from chorus to chorus, and from section to section within each chorus, should be seamless, without pauses. The effect should be that of a lively conversation ping-ponging back and forth, keeping the audience guessing where the next line will be coming from. Douglas J. Cuomo, 2018