Korgscrew
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Posted: Mar. 09 2008, 10:33 |
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I actually just read Martin Glatz's interview with Karl Jenkins in one of the copies of Hiawatha II I was given in Bilbao. He talks quite a lot about some of the reasons behind him being there.
He was suggested to Mike by Universal's A&R manager. They met up and got along with each other, so they chose to work together.
Mike did semi-orchestrate the album on his computer, but like Holger said, doing a good orchestration is something that takes a huge amount of knowledge. Karl said that there were a lot of things in Mike's sketches which wouldn't have worked when given to an orchestra to play, partly because there were a lot of instruments which Mike just had no experience with (and, as Karl stresses, it's not something he should be expected to know - he's not come from a classical background). As well as knowing the ranges of the instruments, it also needs a knowledge of what their limitations are, so that the parts end up playable.
I think if Mike felt he could have done it on his own, he would have done - I'm sure he'd love being able to say "I orchestrated the whole thing myself, having never done anything like this before," but I assume he felt it wouldn't have worked out had he done that.
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