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Whatever the tradition, people are people and music is music: cellist Matthew Barley on Sir John Tavener, Indian music, collaboration & more
[…] the work's genius is the way Sir John's brain and heart worked together.Evidently Sir John was listening to an enormous amount of Indian music whilst working on The Protecting Veil, and Matthew points out that when Westerners listen to Indian classical music it can sound like one long melismatic passage but in fact is tighly constructed.One interested aspect to Matthew's recording is that it includes three passages of spoken word, poetry by W.B Yeats, and Frithjof Schuon (a Swiss philosopher and metaphysician inspired by Hindu philosophy) spoken by Olwen Fouéré and by Julie Christie. As Sir John was a lover of poetry, Matthew wanted to include the spoken word on the disc and the poems are taken from Sir John's favourite poems. Also, Matthew comments, he feels that poetry, at its best, is the only art form that come closest to music, and he also felt very lucky at being […]
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