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>> Well, I needed help recently on a project that involved sampled
> loops. This not being my bag, I asked a guy for help who took care of
> that part of the project. McCartney needed help with orchestral
> writing. I didn't care for the result, but it didn't fail in my ears
> BECAUSE it was a collaboration; it failed for other reasons.
FWIW, a year or so ago I was speaking to David Matthews, who helped with
Paul McCartney's second big classical piece ("Standing Stone", I think). I
asked him how much McCartney actually did on the piece - whether he just
wrote the melodies and got someone else to do all the rest of it, etc.
Apparently, McCartney's first piece, "Liverpool Oratorio", was completed
this way, with Carl Davis doing most of it based upon McCartney's melodies.
However, for the second piece, McCartney was working with Sibelius (IIRC)
and did a lot more of it himself, right down to specifying orchestration
things where he wanted it etc. David's role did seem to be much more of an
editorial one than for the first piece.
Matthew
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