I wrote this score three times.  My first attempt is heard in the large orchestral cues in this montage.  I was happy with it, but the scale was overblown for theater.  I quickly wrote something for jazz combo (muted trumpet, piano, bass, drums) that I felt was more appropriate in scale, but which had a very different tone.  This second version did not match the production and I was asked to revisit my first version of the score.  I made it smaller and kept a little of the jazz drum in for flavor.

Several years later, I listened to all the different versions and assembled this montage combining  moments from all three.  The big cues are still too big for a play.  At 4:46 you will hear music written for the transition to the first televised interview between David Frost and Richard Nixon.  It’s a big moment in the story and the cue is roughly 30 seconds long.  As music for a film montage, it may make sense.  As music for 10 actors to enter and take their positions in a room the size of a large living room, it’s about 20 seconds too long and several orders of magnitude too big.