Radiohead Plus Classical Piano
Christopher O’Reilly is working on something big and it’s going to be a fun show. He’s writing his own arrangement of Radiohead’s music, which he will perform alongside the usual Shostakovich and a bunch of other normal classical piano pieces. It’s a great idea, trying to bring pop music together with classical music. We really enjoy it. They don’t usually do this kind of work otherwise. It’s not a particularly normal show and it’s not the usual way of presenting classical music. But it’s innovative, in the sense of doing the music the way it was a long time ago. Improvisation, crossing the musical lines. People don’t do this anymore. Many more people try to play the music in exactly the way the composers wrote it, rather than putting their own feel on it. So this kind of oddness is unusual, and remarkable.
