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EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with Nicholas Young on Winning a Bessie Award, Rhythm In Motion, STOMP, SoundMovement and Michelle Dorrance
EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with Agnes Obel on 'Aventine' & 'Philharmonics' (Play It Again Sam), David Lynch Remix & Twin Peaks Remake, Maya Deren & November Show @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Danish singer/songwriter Agnes Obel is yet another of the fantastic trend of indie-classical crossovers. Her 2010 debut, Philharmonics garnered her platinum status in Belgium and France, received a Gold award in Holland and went quintuple Platinum in Denmark. Agnes cleaned up at the Danish Music Awards in 2011 for Philharmonics, taking home five awards. Her follow up release, Aventine, was written and recorded at home in Berlin by Agnes herself. To wit, her deluxe edition of Aventine features a remix of "Fuel To Fire" by cult classic director, producer, musician, clothing designer David Lynch. Sonically, Obel is unlike many singer songwriters in the sense that she has a nearly complete backing band of strings and a piano producing a celestial escape. Classicalite recently caught up with Obel over the phone before her debut Minneapolis show to gain insight on her technique, David Lynch and her diaphanous music videos. EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with 'The Source' Composer Ted Hearne on His Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks, R We Who R We and Erykah Badu
Composer/singer Ted Hearne's latest work, the multimedia oratorio The Source, premiered last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The piece is based on Chelsea Manning's release of government documents to WikiLeaks and features some of Hearne's most accessible compositions yet. Commissioned and produced by Beth Morrison Projects (she of the Protoype Festival), the work features a libretto by Mark Doten with direction by Daniel Fish, production design by Jim Findlay and video work by Fish and Findlay together.
