Caroline de Rooij
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Handel's Messiah: A soulful celabration
Black American singing and dancing is born of a deep suffering, a pain, an ancestral cry that is incomprehensible, even to themselves, unless it is somehow deciphered and explained. Mervyn Warren, composer and arranger, executive produced and co-produced with Quincy Jones, one of the most revolutionary adaptations of a classical piece ever and not likely possible of imitation, that attempts to explain the black music phonomenon. In true fashion, the composer re-arranged Handel´s Messiah, A Soulful Celebration to produce a definitive anthology of black music, while at the same time, carrying a European and Western tradition that is antithetical to the very African origins of Black American music.
Handel´s Messiah is a boastful yet contemplative piece of masterful proportions - one of the great musical wonders of the world. Mr. Warren takes a great piece and "funkdafies" it for you. He takes a European sensibility and takes it to levels so strat-o-spheric that you spontaneously want to "rock hard" -- to Handel? It is very hard to sit still while listening. In fact, if you have any soul in you you will be moved by the music. And if you are religious, you will feel it even deeper because it will affirm everything you take on faith.
Mitwirkende:
Jazz Chor vom Kärntner Landes Konservatorium unter der Leitung von Caroline de Rooij
Pop Ensemble geleitet von Karen Asatrian
