01 / THE ENCOUNTER
Paganini.
Reimagined.
Alex has the talent. Paganini is the obsession. Across two centuries, an encounter with greatness becomes a search for his own voice.
A WORLD BY DEMITRI DARR
Across time.
Beyond imitation.
One encounter.
An entirely new world.
PAGANINI ROCKS
Two eras.
One obsession.
A contemporary guitarist.
A legend who refuses to remain in the past.
THE PAST MEETS THE PULSE OF TODAY
Worlds
collide.
Violin. Electric guitar.
The force of a symphonic orchestra.
Paganini.
03 / THE AUDIO TRAILER
The audio
trailer.
Violin × guitar × orchestra
Music by Demitri DARR
04 / A LIFE IN MUSIC
A feeling
that stays.
I’m Demitri DARR, a composer, songwriter and music producer with more than 30 years creating music, working across musical theatre, film and studio production.
My work moves between orchestral scale and intimate detail. From the first musical idea to the finished arrangement, the story comes first.
30+YEARS CREATING MUSIC
05 / DARRSONIC RECORDING STUDIO
A private studio.
A world of possibilities.
A hands-on process. Space to experiment, refine and follow an idea wherever the music takes it.
My music moves across genres — from intimate songs and contemporary pop and rock to orchestral works and musical theatre. Each project begins with its own story and finds its own sound.
FROM THE FIRST NOTE
Listening.
Shaping. Refining.
At the piano, a melody begins to take shape. In the studio, it opens into a wider world of voices, instruments and textures — always in service of the story.
Le glorie degli Incogniti, 1647 · Public domain
Two periods.
One question.What remains when time has taken everything else?
MUSIC · THE PRESENT
04 / THE POET & THE HOURGLASS
Words travelling
through time.
Orologio da polvere The Hourglass
The seventeenth-century Italian poet Ciro di Pers turned clocks and hourglasses into images of human life: time measured, passing, impossible to hold.
More than twenty-five years ago, Demitri DARR encountered his poetry. A few lines became a melody. That first encounter gradually grew into ETERNO — a world of orchestra, choir and soprano.
A life between study and the wider world.
Ciro di Pers studied in Bologna and later travelled to Malta as a knight of the Order of St John. Back in Friuli, he remained in contact with writers and scholars across Italy, including the Venetian Accademia degli Incogniti.
His writing moves between love, faith and the awareness of mortality. Clocks and falling sand give an everyday shape to the question at the heart of ETERNO: what can a human voice hold against the passing of time?
Life & literary context · Treccani ↗From the grain of sand
to the breath of a voice.
The poet & the voice01 / 05
ETERNO / OPEN AIR CONCEPT
Centuries apart.
Under one sky.
Ancient stone holds the memory of centuries. A living voice answers it.
This open-air staging concept brings Ciro di Pers’s poetry into a contemporary world of orchestra, choir, synthesizers and soprano. The choir inhabits the arches; light traces time across the walls. Sand, water and movement make its passage visible.
In the central encounter, the imagined presence of the poet meets the soprano’s voice — a dialogue across time.
Staging concept · Not a realised production
PAGANINI ROCKS · THE TRAILER
Two eras.
One musical obsession.
Violin. Electric guitar. A dialogue across time.
Library of Congress · Public domain
Library of Congress · Public domain
PAGANINI · THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH
Before rock.
There was a legend.
Long before amplifiers, Paganini made virtuosity a public spectacle. His Vienna appearances in 1828 helped launch the European tours that turned a celebrated violinist into an international sensation.
Portraits, stage prints and caricatures reveal more than a musician: they show a public image taking shape. Admirers celebrated a modern Orpheus; others surrounded his talent with rumours of the supernatural.
In PAGANINI ROCKS, that distance between the artist and the legend becomes Alex’s dilemma. Is he learning from Paganini — or disappearing into someone else’s image?
The past is an inspiration.
A voice must still be your own.
A voice must still be your own.
Historical prints meet an imagined contemporary stage. The archive informs the project’s themes; Alex’s encounter is a theatrical fiction.
Historical images & background · Library of Congress
Grey Villet · © Estate of Grey Villet
National Archives
National Archives
LOVING · THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STORY
Two names.
A turning point.
Before the headlines, there were Richard and Mildred: a couple who wanted to make a home together in Virginia.
These are their real faces and the documents behind the story — a marriage license, then nine years later a telegram announcing that the judgment against them had been reversed.
- 1958Married in Washington, D.C. Arrested after returning to Virginia.
- 1963Mildred’s appeal for help leads to the ACLU and a legal challenge.
- 1967The Supreme Court strikes down bans on interracial marriage.
FROM HISTORY TO THE STAGE
A quiet letter.
A voice that grows.
In exile from Virginia, Mildred writes to Robert Kennedy asking for help. A private wish — to return home with her family — begins its journey into public life.
That intimate impulse is at the heart of More Than Hope. In this staging concept, a table, a doorway and a pool of light hold the scene. Richard is close enough to hear, but the act of writing belongs to Mildred.
Handwriting rises across the scrims. A small room opens into a larger world: one woman’s words finding the strength to be heard.
The scale is intimate.
The consequences are immense.
The consequences are immense.
Visual concept for the musical · AI-generated stage image
CROSSROADS · WHAT WE CARRY FORWARD
A family apart.
A song between them.
David leaves behind more than an unfinished show. He leaves a silence between two branches of the same family — and music that his son can carry across it.
In Israel, Ariel’s inheritance acquires faces: Leah, the half-sister he has never known, and the generations whose lives shaped his father’s choices. With Dalia, the past begins to open towards a future of his own.
This is the particular heartbeat of CROSSROADS: a son bringing his father’s unrealised musical home, while discovering what home means to him.
The music is an inheritance.
Belonging is a choice.
Belonging is a choice.
Projected family photographs, remembered rooms and intimate encounters let three generations share one stage.
THE PRODUCTION HORIZON
Israel & America.
One shared stage.
A story of family, memory and belonging — connecting audiences in Israel with Jewish communities in America through music and theatre.
In Jerusalem, Rebecca Crown Hall at the Jerusalem Theatre forms the starting point of that vision: a close encounter with the characters, their music and the family they become.
In America, the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills offers an inspiring vision for that next chapter. Owned and operated by Temple of the Arts, this historic Art Deco theatre brings Jewish cultural life together with music, drama and film — a resonant setting to explore for a future production of Crossroads.
Production concept · Potential venues for discussion, not confirmed engagements. Format, partnerships and dates remain to be developed.
Photography & sources
Jerusalem exterior: Gila Brand · CC BY 2.5.
Rebecca Crown Hall: © Jerusalem Theatre.
Saban auditorium: photo courtesy of Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts, via Beverly Press.
Saban exterior: Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts. Images resized; framing may be cropped to fit.