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Jul
Crossing Over
I’ve written about this before: “classical” artists seem to want to cross over to pop. And pop artists want to cross over to classical. I have my theories. But I won’t go into it yet again. (You can thank me now. You can thank me later.)
After his amazing solo album, Eraser, Thom Yorke decided to turn his efforts in a classical work! With his Radiohead friend, Johny Greenwood, Thom Yorke will work with other 11 musicians (including Gorillaz and Beta Band members) to contribute for a clasical music remix album named “Cordical Songs“.
(Read here.)
I wonder if they’d like to hire a somewhat older oboist. Hmmm.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:11 am
Whew. When I saw the title, I first thought of the John Edwards Crossing Over. :-)
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 am
Heh … nope. Not even close.
I guess if we run across Elvis singing Bach we’ll have truly crossed over.
July 4th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
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