Hi everyone and thanks for your further input.

Thanks for your suggestions, M.Ted. I owe you a PM - I'll try to do that this week. What's a performance piece? Do you mean a play?

Art, I will look up Paul Durst. You said, I envy you if you are, as you sound, at the beginning. I've written about a dozen historical songs - a few of which I'm very happy with - and I like to think that that's just a beginning.

Thanks, Mike, for your PM and note here. And as long as we're talking about how to write the songs once the info is acquired, I like what Willie-O told me once: "Remember you're not testifying in court." One way I've found to resist the temptation to stuff everything I know into a song is to write more than one song about the same topic, or at least keep in mind that I always have the option of doing so.

Marion