Stewart

[policefan]

...has been interviewed once more : )


http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/201 ... land_t.php



PS: I certainly hope all works out for this special performance!
After all two years of composing went into this.

Good luck to y'all!

[Horacio]

I wish everything will be OK.
Good luck,Composer!

[njperry]

Several interetsing things in this excellent interview. "Pushing parameters is important to me"

Some highlights for me:

On Ben Hur: "It's being done again this summer in Rome." I didn't know that. Very exciting for our Italian friends.

On what's ahead and what is important for him:
[quote]You've scored operas, ballets and choral music. What's next for you?
Probably more orchestral music as a matter of fact. I have an opera coming up in London. It's the old Edgar Allen Poe story, The Tell-Tale Heart. That's what's next after Dallas. I just finished the score for that. The Dallas piece took a fat two years to write and I delivered the score two months ago. I'd almost forgotten about it. It's such a long lead time. It's not instant gratification.

One member of D'Drum is quoted as saying that your concerto is unlike anything ever heard before. Is that hard to live up to?
A lot of my music has been described like that. That doesn't mean it's going to be commercially successful. It is artistically rewarded. No one has heard exactly this piece before. I think it is a pretty cool piece and I think it's going to rock. The Dallas Orchestra is a rocking orchestra. When you have those five wild Texans on those gamelan bells, the place is going to be rocking.

Is it important to you to keep trying new things?
Yes, I enjoy rock music, but it's very limited in its scope. I still enjoy power chords. On the other hand, there is more interesting stuff to explore. Pushing parameters is important to me.
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Uh, Stewart, you have always said you were born in Virginia, not Cairo as you do here. In fact your bio on this site says you were born in Alexandria, Virginia.
[quote]We really did not move that much, not like army kids. My dad was in the CIA and was stationed in Beirut. I was born in Cairo and we were there for ten years.[/quote]

[policefan]

Uh, Stewart, you have always said you were born in Virginia, not Cairo as you do here. In fact your bio on this site says you were born in Alexandria, Virginia.

Maybe he is just saying this because he wants to run for president

; )

[conroy]

Once again thanks to Gina's excellent wintry driving skills we have survived the treacherous trip to devour Texas BBQ and even more harrowing post sunset voyage sliding through black ice back to to the k ight's inn.

[luna_virgo]

Yep, we did a little sledding in the car tonight, but all Nutters and the Snowmobile are fine.

Edit: just pretend we posted this in the correct thread.

[Kim]

"...and What It's Like Telling Sting to Fuck Off"

Classic headline!

[smax]

"What about Bill Bruford from King Crimson?
I did a concert with him and we had a drum-off. He had a show and I had a show and someone had the bright idea of getting us both on stage. The problem was that his musical persona is very delicate. On drums, that's not me. For me, playing drums is a very hairy-ass, silverback, male-dominance, noise-making experience. He had to play louder than he ever had in his life and I had to play quieter. When I sit at the drum set and start playing, it's all primal."


which reminds me, i've lost my boot of the rhythm sticks festival, anyone know where i can find one?

"Bruford / Copeland
Royal Festival Hall, London
After voyaging through the distant galaxies of art-rock with Yes, King Crimson, Gong and others, Bill Bruford has now been performing with his band Earthworks for 15 years. With this much mileage under their wheels, the quartet have developed a fast and fluent rapport, nonchalantly passing the ball around while negotiating any manner of devious time signatures. It almost seems invidious to bill them as part of the Rhythm Sticks festival, since this is very much a band rather than a drummer with sidemen. Still, Bruford must be a joy to play with, always pushing forward and asking questions while never allowing his pin-sharp articulation to slacken, and keeping time as punctiliously as an atomic clock.

In contrast to the lean economy of Bruford's men, Stewart Copeland packed the stage not only with his own enormous drumkit, which hogged the right-hand portion like an Egyptian catafalque, but also with the strings and brass of the Matrix Ensemble and the percussive arsenal of Ensemble Bash. While his ex-bandmate Sting goes around concocting upholstered fuzak and saving Africa, Copeland has converted himself into an award-winning soundtrack composer and "rhythmatist".

Like his music, Copeland is noisy and extrovert, and the performance was a barrage of sun-drenched musical colours and thundering rhythms. Grace, named after one of his daughters, blasted along like Charles Mingus with the difficult bits taken out. Equaliser, from the TV series, featured galloping brass fanfares and a smidgen of string quartet. A hoot.

· Bill Bruford and Stewart Copeland play the Dome, Brighton (01273 709709), tonight, then tour. "

[georgygirl]

Thank you for sharing this interview, policefan.

I like it very much.

Stewart said:

"As a composer, I suppose I am bit more intellectual. But as a drummer, I just sit there and the animal takes over."

Steppenwolf


Good luck in the Gamelan show.

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Outstanding. Although I do wish he'd name check some folks he'd like to work with....(of course, my vote is Jack White, so he'll come to Nashville and make an album at Third Man studios...)

Bah. Really bummed to have missed the Gamelan. But what are you gonna do. Sigh.