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Exclusive Roger Waters interview |
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Written by Matt
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Thursday, 24 November 2005 |
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Following his two consecutive
performances of Ça Ira last week, Roger Waters chatted with our friend
Mark Cunningham, who is the editor of Total Production International
magazine.
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The full interview, available
here exclusively, is an interesting look at the preparations for, and
performance of, the opera, and reiterates Roger's views of the work,
how the musicians were in Rome, and what he thinks of the critics -
particularly the ones who liken the work to something that Andrew Lloyd
Webber might have created!
With thanks to Mark, we can
exclusively bring you the whole interview. An edited version will
appear in TPI magazine at some point around Christmas, but you can read
it now - click here to read the interview.
Here's a taster:
"...No,
it's not about playing safe and I fully expected to see the knives come
out. But I'm happy to say that the knives have been on the dull side,
by and large. There's been very little written that's been very
dismissive of it. I think there's enough in it musically to prevent
them from just saying it's crap. They can accuse it of being crude or
that it has relentless crescendos - all those kinds of criticisms - but
they can't write it off as not being relevant to the place in which
they live. And I'm happy with that."
Our thanks to Mark for allowing the interview to be shared with you all.
(Picture by Jimmy Ienner, Jr.,
and © 2005 Columbia Records & Sony Classical. Used strictly with
permission - no unauthorised use allowed.)
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