Tonight I play my first concert in Belgium since last year, and it's probably my most important concert--how do you ignore 28 tons of bronze? Way to start out a tour. Antwerp, here I come. Please love me, and don't rain too much.
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Wow, an American girl coming to our small town to play the Carillon. Maybe you could help me out: it has been suggested on Mechelen blogt (the local city blog) that the carillon sometimes plays a free interpretation of a radiohead song. From my appartment I also heard it several times (a while ago, I must admit). But I think it might be the other way round: Thom Yorke may have been inspired by some classic composition... Would you know of anything like that?
I actually do have some piano sheet music that I could have arranged and played on my recital, but I don't have it with me now. I don't know of much classical influence on Thom Yorke at all... Wikipedia gives this:
In interviews Yorke has cited a variety of personal musical heroes and influences, ranging from jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus to Neil Young, singer Scott Walker, electronic act Autechre and Krautrock band Can. Joy Division, Magazine, Elvis Costello, The Smiths and Sonic Youth were early influences on Radiohead and Yorke. In 2004 Yorke said, "When I was in college, the Pixies and R.E.M. changed my life",[12] and he has often mentioned both bands as examples.
But earlier, the article also mentions, "Yorke and the band adopted a more radical approach on 2000's Kid A and 2001's Amnesiac, processing vocals, obscuring lyrics, and departing from rock for a more varied musical landscape including electronic, jazz and avant-garde classical influences." Too bad there's no elaboration there!
I don't normally go to all this trouble to look things up, but Radiohead is one of my favorite groups. :) I am totally in support of getting someone to play Radiohead on the Mechelen carillon. "Spinning Plates" in particular would work very well, and I think I may have played that at another carillon before; maybe at Yale or somewhere in Belgium.
2 comments:
Wow, an American girl coming to our small town to play the Carillon. Maybe you could help me out: it has been suggested on Mechelen blogt (the local city blog) that the carillon sometimes plays a free interpretation of a radiohead song. From my appartment I also heard it several times (a while ago, I must admit). But I think it might be the other way round: Thom Yorke may have been inspired by some classic composition... Would you know of anything like that?
I actually do have some piano sheet music that I could have arranged and played on my recital, but I don't have it with me now. I don't know of much classical influence on Thom Yorke at all... Wikipedia gives this:
In interviews Yorke has cited a variety of personal musical heroes and influences, ranging from jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus to Neil Young, singer Scott Walker, electronic act Autechre and Krautrock band Can. Joy Division, Magazine, Elvis Costello, The Smiths and Sonic Youth were early influences on Radiohead and Yorke. In 2004 Yorke said, "When I was in college, the Pixies and R.E.M. changed my life",[12] and he has often mentioned both bands as examples.
But earlier, the article also mentions, "Yorke and the band adopted a more radical approach on 2000's Kid A and 2001's Amnesiac, processing vocals, obscuring lyrics, and departing from rock for a more varied musical landscape including electronic, jazz and avant-garde classical influences." Too bad there's no elaboration there!
I don't normally go to all this trouble to look things up, but Radiohead is one of my favorite groups. :) I am totally in support of getting someone to play Radiohead on the Mechelen carillon. "Spinning Plates" in particular would work very well, and I think I may have played that at another carillon before; maybe at Yale or somewhere in Belgium.
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