Mr. May should, like, make some new tracks before he starts working on an opera. I'm sure he approaches everything in life with supreme confidence that he's The Man, but there's a lot of technique and logistical know-how involved in writing an opera that you don't learn from being a DJ and producer. When people go to University for 10 years to learn to be composers they're not just smoking weed and talking sh1t.
And then there's the matter of what May says, versus what actually happens. I'm not calling him a liar, just saying that he's a world champion talker. Like Steve Jobs, he tends to generate his own reality distortion field. Not that I wouldn't welcome any new work by the man. I've thought a lot about doing an arrangement of "Strings Of Life" for orchestra, which could be really exciting. Even though May never studied classical music, "Strings" has enough drama and variation to work well as a concert piece. But then I've been thinking about arranging "Strings" for a long time and never done anything about it, so I shouldn't probably be dogging May... On 12/30/06, Cyclone Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think Kent is right. Even current cool cat Lupe Fiasco listens to classical. Derrick May is a big listener of classical - and he's working on that opera project I posted about a while ago. These kind of 'collaborations' are the way forward.
