When pop meets Prokofiev

Maddy Costa talks to the composers and musicians taking a genre-bending approach to pop-classical fusionsIn his book The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross suggests: "One possible destination for 21st-century music is a final 'great fusion': intelligent pop artists and extroverted composers speaking more or less the same language." What he didn't mention was that, since any language needs its interpreters, intelligent, extroverted orchestras might be required to communicate that fusion.Step up the London ...

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