A new TV pilot (Mozart in the Jungle) and released film (Grand Piano) attempt to pull the curtain back on the inner and outer lives of classical musicians. But maybe the most important achievement in both cases is to show that these players actually have lives offstage.
Melissa Block talks with Kerry Candaele, director of the documentary Following the Ninth. The film explores how Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony continues to “offer hope in an unhappy world.”
From pulsing techno to alluring ambient, hear what happens when two seemingly opposite musical realms collide on the dance floor and in the chill room. Hear Madonna collaborator William Orbit’s take on Beethoven, a beatified version of Barber’s Adagio and a techno take on the Carmina Burana.