Raffaele wrote: >For all UK and European listers, this could be our >opportunity to get some sort of connection with Joni. >Apparently she'll be in London in November, maybe we > could hang around some grill or cafe bar waiting for her >to turn up.
You'll have to send in any news you hear on this. It would be nice if you can listen in a bit, too! This was posted here before but after talking with her last weekend I wanted to think again about the songs she will be reworking. She is very much into this project. This ought to be a completely awesome work. Here's what she said in the recent Billboard interview: "I'm recording 24 of my songs, with handpicked players from the [London] Philharmonic and some of the BBC's players to make the strongest orchestra we can put together in London. We did the last one that way, and now we're doing a two-record set of new arrangements of my music that we'll record in November for Reprise." Which songs has she selected for the program? "The ones that have classical compositional aspects," she says, citing "Coyote," "The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)," "Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune)," "For the Roses," "Just Like This Train," and "The Last Time I Saw Richard." "Also," she adds, " 'Refuge of the Roads,' for instance, translates really beautifully to this approach, as does 'Borderline' and 'Cherokee Louise.' We're also doing 'The Dawntreader' from my first record. I'm just distilling what I think are essential songs in terms of my best writing but bearing in mind what translates to symphonic production."
