Can Latter-Day Saints write great Novels, Plays or Music.

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_Nightlion
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Re: Can Latter-Day Saints write great Novels, Plays or Music.

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karl61 wrote:Can focusing all your time and talents (and money) into building the Kingdom of God take away from other things.

http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voice ... n/?id=9119


I know that my play is grossly underdeveloped and neglected now for sixteen years with a little update a few years ago. But I am confident that if it got the airing out it deserves it holds it own against all the greatest art ever done. The music is on my website: www.fireark.org and so is the entire libretto.

It is a musical play about the return of the Lost Ten Tribes a remnant of which are hidden away in the Hollow Earth. The hero prophet converts his nation and they rise up and smite the rocks and the ice flows down at their presence and a highway is cast up from deep as they march forth a nation born at once. The earth travails and brings forth her strength. The everlasting hills tremble at their presence.

I shopped this around Utah for a couple of years and everyone hated it. They were of course transferring the fact that they hated me whom they knew was accusing them of apostasy and spiritual treason.
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Re: Can Latter-Day Saints write great Novels, Plays or Music.

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Sir,

The sheer effort to produce a film, almost any film that is distrubted widely, is in of itself an incredible achievement. To be regarded by the Academy is a phenomenal effort worthy of praise. Perhaps Mr. Nehor's reluctance to acknowlegde this person's achievement is couched in anti-Gay bias?

Very Respectfully,


Sure, Micheal Bay making several hundred million dollar+ films and Daniel Steele selling the amount of novels she does is a notable achievement, but having a commercial achievement isn't the same as producing something aesthetically great. Being recognized by the academy is nice, but it isn't the equivalent of having high critical reputation or being notable to our own individually developed senses of taste. Academy tastes diverge too much from short or longview critical reputations. Oscars aren't a good measuring stick here. They're overglorified guild awards.

Mr. Nehor clearly has an anti-gay bias. Maybe that's driving his opinion here, but I'm also not one to equate having an Oscar with greatness.
_John Waite
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Re: Can Latter-Day Saints write great Novels, Plays or Music.

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Nightlion wrote:
karl61 wrote:Can focusing all your time and talents (and money) into building the Kingdom of God take away from other things.

http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voice ... n/?id=9119


I know that my play is grossly underdeveloped and neglected now for sixteen years with a little update a few years ago. But I am confident that if it got the airing out it deserves it holds it own against all the greatest art ever done. The music is on my website: http://www.fireark.org and so is the entire libretto.

It is a musical play about the return of the Lost Ten Tribes a remnant of which are hidden away in the Hollow Earth. The hero prophet converts his nation and they rise up and smite the rocks and the ice flows down at their presence and a highway is cast up from deep as they march forth a nation born at once. The earth travails and brings forth her strength. The everlasting hills tremble at their presence.

I shopped this around Utah for a couple of years and everyone hated it. They were of course transferring the fact that they hated me whom they knew was accusing them of apostasy and spiritual treason.

I can't decide if you are 100% bonkers, nuts, cracked, etc., or if you are just a really disturbed disbeliever who is putting on this show of craziness to discredit Mormonism.
Either way, you're obviously suffering from some serious mental disturbances.
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Re: Can Latter-Day Saints write great Novels, Plays or Music.

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John Waite wrote:I can't decide if you are 100% bonkers, nuts, cracked, etc., or if you are just a really disturbed disbeliever who is putting on this show of craziness to discredit Mormonism.
Either way, you're obviously suffering from some serious mental disturbances.


Did you visit my web site and experience my World-Class Musical? Or are you just sitting there wrything with envy?
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