{"id":11968,"date":"2016-12-22T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11968"},"modified":"2016-12-23T07:40:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T12:40:31","slug":"album-mini-review-mike-mills-and-robert-mcduffie-concerto-for-violin-rock-band-and-string-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/22\/album-mini-review-mike-mills-and-robert-mcduffie-concerto-for-violin-rock-band-and-string-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Mike Mills and Robert McDuffie \u2013 Concerto for Violin, Rock Band and String Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11967\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mike_mills_concerto.jpg\" alt=\"mike_mills_concerto\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01LWXJ3SK&amp;asins=B01LWXJ3SK&amp;linkId=31ab1cee3528496ed05c994e1e40cfc8&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <b>R.E.M.<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/13\/video-review-jeff-lynnes-elo-live-at-hyde-park\/\"><b>E.L.O.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hybridizing rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll and classical is nothing new: arguably, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/28\/album-mini-review-the-beatles-live-at-the-hollywood-bowl\/\"><b>Beatles<\/b> <\/a>did it in 1965 with \u201cYesterday.\u201d And many others have attempted since, including E.L.O. Yet there&#8217;s something fresh and new about this, the latest project from R.E.M. Bassist <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/13\/mike-mills-bridges-the-gap-between-rock-and-classical\/\">Mike Mills<\/a>. Working with lifelong friend, Juilliard-trained violinist Robert McDuffie (and arranger <b>David Mallamud<\/b>), Mills has created a work that draws form the very best of both genres. The nuance and instrumental virtuosity of classical\/orchestral music is combined with Mills&#8217; knowing sense of how to write a memorable tune. The rock musicians never fight for supremacy, and McDuffie&#8217;s violin ably assumes the role normally given (in rock) to a lead vocalist. Hummable melodies abound through the six movements, and \u2013 most important of all \u2013 it rocks when it wants to. Selections from composers <b>Philip Glass<\/b> and <b>John Adams<\/b> round out the set.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/13\/mike-mills-bridges-the-gap-between-rock-and-classical\/\">Read my interview with Mike Mills here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: R.E.M., E.L.O. Hybridizing rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll and classical is nothing new: arguably, the Beatles did it in 1965 with \u201cYesterday.\u201d And many others have attempted since, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,49,62,65],"tags":[2922,1773,2923],"class_list":["post-11968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classical","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-mike-mills","tag-r-e-m","tag-robert-mcduffie","cat-17-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12159,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions\/12159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}