Also "The Making of Standing Stone" will be show in full that same morning November 23rd at 9am Eastern.
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I've
been reading all these wonderful stories of London last week (they'd make
a great book!) and something has particularly struck me ... Paul, IN PERSON,
to look at, to observe and to speak to, has not disappointed a single one
of us. In fact, in most cases (including mine!) the experience was
even BETTER than we imagined it could be.
This man IS what he seems to be: not a puffed-up publicity scam, not a sad replica of the sixites, not someone living on past glories, not someone taking his fans for granted - he is just FANTASTIC.
Isn't it great to know that is true?
Lynn
... from England
A new, four-movement symphonic poem, "Standing Stone," which will be
given it's New York premiere November 19th at Carnegie Hall and has already
become a best seller on CD, is brought to a singing close by one more of
those tunes. After much Celtic panting and mooing, the last movement
begins with a striking nine-note figure in the brass, which eventually,
after many journeys, resolves into a love song. It's a piercingly
beautiful tune-not soaring but, rather, somehow floating, gently above
the heads of the musicians and into the hearts of it's listeners.
It's an English song. What one hears throughout "Standing Stone,"
in fact, is a nostalgic inventory of all the things, aside from the rock
and roll, that a musically gifted teen-ager would have heard
growing up in Liverpool in the nineteen forties and fifties:
Elgar and Vaughn Williams, church hymns, film scores. When the quality
of Th. new work dips, as it does, oddly, in the most fevered passages,
it sounds like a Russian-derived Dimitre Tiomkin-style music of fifties
movies. When the quality picks up, as it does in the slower, chamber episodes,
it sounds like English pastoral or sometimes, Christmas music. Having
written the soundtrack of the sixties, McCartney has now written a carol
for the millennium. Melody has many uses.