Intermission Theme (from 'Zone')

Written and Recorded in 1991

This tune was written for a project of students’ theatrical performance called Zone, to which I was deeply involved during the autumn of 1991. In its initial phase, we started off with gathering random ideas for the project and I wrote some original tunes in accordance with the basic scheme provided by the director, who was my close friend at that time. This tune was one of them.

Ideas I proposed for the performance included to write and play an operetta consists of songs written by me and other prospective performers and this tune was supposed to be the closing theme of the operetta. As the scheme progressed, the idea was dismissed by the director and the tune was never used in the actual performance. 

For making this video, I decided to treat this tune as the intermission theme of the Playlist version of Zone in my YouTube channel. Images and footage I used here are picked up for previewing the second half of the performance. Needless to say, this tune is almost identical with the Opening Theme in the Playlist, because originally these tunes were meant to be the opening section and its reprise section within an operetta. A subtle but important difference between these tunes is the way they end. Whilst the opening theme simply ends as it ceases to repeat its final section, this reprise version slows down to be connected to a new section – a variation of National Anthem, another tune I wrote for this project. This was caused by the initial scheme, which held a scene located at the fictional government’s headquarters soon after the operetta. In other words, when I was writing these tunes I was not sure what would come next to the Opening Theme, therefore I left it to end as it does whilst I made a twist at the ending of the reprise so that it would suit to the next scene we held at that moment.