Your Lyrics: Analysis and Feedback
Instructor: LT Cousineau
Course Type: ONLINE
Have song lyrics in progress that you love artistically, but are unsure about dramaturgically? Award-winning lyricist and NMI Lyric Lab instructor LT Cousineau will provide analysis and constructive feedback on your in-progress or completed song lyrics. Feedback includes overall assessment of the clarity of storytelling, the character’s voice, and the placement of the song in a larger work, as well as a detailed assessment of the song’s structure, progression, prosody, and rhyme
$60 per song / 10 songs for $500
About the Instructor
LT Cousineau’s musical, 40 is the New 15 (with composer Cindy O’Connor), had a critically-acclaimed run at the NoHo Arts Center, receiving a Best New Musical award from StageSceneLA and a 2010 GLAAD Media Award Nomination for Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre, and was chosen by Stephen Schwartz for the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop. Now and Then a Hero (with composer Jake Anthony) was seen at the Montana Repertory Theatre as part of the Missoula Colony Festival, and his musical drama, All That He Was (with composer Cindy O’Connor) was seen at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. For this same show, Larry also won the Kennedy Center National Playwright’s Award and the ACTF Musical Theater Award. His historical-fiction musical, The Last Princess, (with music by Allen Hong) was also featured in the Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop.
Testimonials
- “LT Cousineau is a clever lyricist, innovative and talented with his use of words in a song. His choice of words is often surprising and innovative, a true wordsmith.”
- ~~Gary Powers, Co-Founder, Revolution Stage Company Palm Springs, California
- “I have had the pleasure of using one of LT Cousineau’s pieces in our recent Holiday Concerts. The strength of his lyrics resides in the ability of each singer to imagine that the lyrics were written by them because they express context, content and an emotional spectrum that few pieces offer. His sensitive underlayment and attention to syllabic inflection mesh beautifully with the musical rhythmic patterns and thereby allow the text to be more fully appreciated by the audience. And his choice of rhyme scheme, as well as overall structure are wonderfully interwoven to create a very singable composition.”
- ~~Dr. Stan Hill, PhD, Artistic Director, Modern Men - Coachella Valley Men’s Chorus
- “LT is an absolute joy to collaborate with on writing. He is creative, compassionate, and completely flexible for any situation. His talents truly shine through his lyrics in every way.”
- ~~James Morehead, Artistic Director, Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus
- “LT has an impressive resume as a lyricist and writer, and has a unique ability to pass what he has learned in his years in the business to others. I’ve learned so much about lyric writing, prosody, and song writing from LT. He can really teach!”
- ~~Kevin Cloud, composer/lyricist