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The live Webcast will feature an interview with Sir Paul McCartney which
is
to include questions submitted by fans on the Internet. National
Public Radio
(NPR) will broadcast the interview and concert on over 350 radio stations.
This event is a multi-media presentation including radio and Internet audio
broadcast across the World Wide Web. As expected there is a Web Site
for this event, using cutting edge technology. Fans are encouraged to visit
the Official Webcast site prior to the event for behind-the-scenes coverage
with Real Audio Real video, and the new Real Flash technology. The URL
is
http://www.standingstone97.com
Traveller Information Services
will produce the Internet multimedia portion of
the American premiere of Sir Paul McCartney's Standing Stone, his latest
venture into the realm of classical music. The concert is to be performed
by
the Orchestra and Chorus of St. Luke's at New York's Carnegie Hall
Auditorium. The concert may also be viewed and heard live over the
Internet, making the it the largest single classical music event in history.
MPL Communications has selected Traveller Information Services to
produce this multifaceted presentation of radio, television, interview,
and
Internet audio and video.
The standingstone97.com website features a custom video document
called The Making of Standing Stone which explores Mr. McCartney's
journey into the classical music idiom. This well-produced documentary,
of
particular interest to anyone with an interest in music of any style, is
engaging in its own right. The music featured on the website is from the
EMI
Classics CD of Standing Stone.
The webcast will feature an interview with Paul McCartney which will take
place prior to the live presentation of Standing Stone from Carnegie Hall.
Visitors to this website may submit questions before the interview.
The Making of Standing Stone explores Paul McCartney's journey into the
classical music idiom. This well-produced documentary, of particular
interest to anyone with an interest in music of any style, is engaging
in its
own right. The music featured on the video is from Mr. McCartney's
Standing Stone CD, which became the best-selling classical album in
history on the day of its release in September 1997.
Also "The Making of Standing Stone" will be show in full that same morning November 23rd at 9am Eastern.
RealVideo - 
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.