Re: 4 Hero @ Bloomsbury Theatre

Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Fri, 07 Aug 1998 16:04:09 -0700


At 12:24 PM 8/6/98 +0100, Mark Allerton wrote:

>Apart from kicking off with a brief instrumental version of "Black Gold
>Of The Sun", the material came entirely from "Page 1" of "Two Pages",
>and to bring it to the stage Mark & Dego had a total of 20 additional
>musicians - 8 strings, 3 horns + Chris Bowden on sax, 3 singers, Ursula
>Rucker, guitar, percussion - oh, and drums & bass (double.)

Just want to add an interesting, ironic note... Electronic music has long
been accused of "replacing musicians"
(or at least downsizing the amout of musicians needed) with machines, but
as we can see here, we have a whopping 22 (count em!) piece band (orchestra?)!

I also notice string sections are starting to get in vogue now...(i.e.
Bjork, etc).

Elson

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