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MAKING MUSIC OUT OF EYRE.

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Byline: Fred Crafts The Register-Guard

Sometimes, Kristina Harris can't see the forest for the trees. Take her ``Jane Eyre, the Musical Classic'' for example.

"I'd always been a big fan of (Charlotte Bronte's novel) `Jane Eyre,' and I'd always been involved in musical theater, and I was a writer, but I had never combined all of those things," Harris says.

Then - eureka! - inspiration hit.

``One day, in kind of a creative frenzy, I picked up the novel and said, `This needs to be a musical,' and I sat down and wrote the script in a single day,'' she says.

As impressive as that achievement was, it got only half the job done. In order for it to be a musical, it would, of course, need music. Harris knew she couldn't write the songs herself. Who could?

After a long, frustrating search, Harris found her way to the Corvallis Composers Group, whose co-founder, Suzannah Doyle, suggested several musicians to consider. As an afterthought, she also sent along some of her own songs.

Harris...

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