“After all (The Odessa Staircase)” by the Pet Shop Boys and Dresdner Sinfoiker
For a first post I have selected to share with you the track “After all (The Odessa Staircase)” from the recent CD "Battleship Potemkin" by Tennant/Lowe (composers) and the Pet Shop Boys (performers). This score was commissioned for a screening of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin by Philip Dodd, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. This selection seems to be a synergistic combination of the themes I hope my blog will explore, stated generally: art, music and philosophy.
I have for many years been a fan of PSB, but more recently, I have grown to respect them as artists as opposed to pop celebrities -- if they can be called that. They have collaborated with architect Zaha Hadid and artist Sam Taylor-Wood and Neil Tennant was even on the 1998 Turner Prize jury (the year Chris Ofili won). The selection of Tennant/Lowe to compose a new score for a 1925 silent film about a 1905 Black Sea Russian revolt is fitting. They have quite often played with Soviet imagery and motifs, have espoused socialist views (Neil Tennant studied Socialism) and have a passion for classical music. For more than anyone needs to know about the Pet Shop Boys check out The Introspective Pet Shop Boys FAQ
The orchestration on Battleship Potemkin is by Torsten Rasch and performed by the Dresdner Sinfoniker conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer.
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