Saturday, July 13, 2013

Entertainment news - latimes.com: The joys and embarrassments of classical and pop music hybrids

Entertainment news - latimes.com
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Jul 13th 2013, 17:00, by By Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Music Critic

Deutsche Grammophon's signing of Schiller is the latest example in classical-pop interdependence than can produce new sounds (good and bad).

The venerable German record label Deutsche Grammophon has just signed Schiller. No, not Friedrich Schiller, the poet and playwright whose "Ode to Joy" is the text for the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (which has been recorded on DG by Karajan, Bernstein and many other major maestros). We're talking the platinum-selling German electronica band Schiller, which is named after said Friedrich.

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