Never heard of the Choir of the Earth – but they sound delicious! Agnes Dei. A lovely combination of sound and unusual mix of brooding imagery in this video.
At the end, when you think it’s finished, it goes on, and you’ll see just how many singers of the earth there are!
Went to see the Springsteen movie this evening - it was an interesting ‘compare and contrast’ to the Dylan biopic from the start of the year. Enjoyed it if only because it deepened my understanding of ‘Nebraska’, which forty-odd years since I first bought the vinyl, remains one of my favourites.
There’s two versions circulating, one with English dialogue and French subtitles and the other dubbed in French - as with the Dylan film I went for the former and in both films, felt the subtitles missed a lot of the dialogue, both its content and its ‘feel’.
The film closes with the ‘Electric Nebraska’ version of ‘Atlantic City’, which for me fell way short of the original and reiterated the film’s central theme of Springsteen’s struggle to convince everyone that his stripped down versions of the songs were better than those made in the studio with the E St Band.
My favourite piano player Katherine Cordova - her composition/version of Hans Zimmer’s music for the Formula 1 movie. The car on top of the piano is her first Lego attempt – the Formular 1 racing car.
And the Russian Imperial Orchestra’s longer version.
Ooh, I was listening to Joe’s Garage just this morning. All triggered by going to see a band on Saturday night where the guitarist was using a whammy bar so I was then earwormed by the line “we had a second hand guitar, it was a Stratocaster with a whammy bar”.
I don’t think Zimmer’s music is influenced by Einaudi, as far as I can tell, but Katherine Cordova has improvised on music by both. She looks calm on the outside but there must be an intense & dramatic determined inner self. A powerful player.
Edit - forgot, I emailed her a few years ago suggesting she concenrate on Einaudi, Zimmer & James Newton Howard. Hope she heeded!
I asked ChatGPT for info about the event, which I thought must have taken ages to prepare.
The effort reportedly took weeks to organise: coordinating 100 musicians, arranging music, arranging logistics (sound, street permissions, lighting, crowd control), scheduling the performance, and managing technical aspects (recording, filming, editing).
They used a professional-grade sound system to ensure high audio quality across the open street environment.
The musical arrangement was handled by a team of arrangers and musical directors; the video editing, camera work, and production required many crew members.
According to estimates for similar flash-mob projects, the overall production budget reaches into the hundreds of thousands of euros.