{"id":5038,"date":"2015-03-09T05:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T05:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/03\/09\/lamb-of-god-frontman-david-randall-blythe-will-write-music-for-a-ballet\/"},"modified":"2015-03-09T05:39:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T05:39:42","slug":"lamb-of-god-frontman-david-randall-blythe-will-write-music-for-a-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/03\/09\/lamb-of-god-frontman-david-randall-blythe-will-write-music-for-a-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamb of God frontman David Randall Blythe will write music for a ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"


At a first glance singer-songwriter Randy Blythe, of metal band Lamb of God, might not appear to have much in common with Pet Shop Boys<\/span>, Jamie xx<\/span> or Sufjan Stevens<\/span>. But he\u2019s due to join their ranks, by scoring a ballet that is headed to a dance festival in Richmond, Virginia, from 17 March to 22 March. <\/p>\n

Inventory, the short ballet piece for which Blythe has composed music, will be debuted at Richmond\u2019s New<\/span> Works festival. Matthew Frain, a Richmond Ballet<\/span> company member and friend of Blythe\u2019s, choreographed the ballet and is largely responsible for Blythe\u2019s involvement in the project.<\/p>\n

After sitting down together at Starbucks, when Frain told Blythe about his plans to choreograph material for the festival, Blythe played<\/span> Frain some of the music he had been working on while Lamb of God were on tour.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Frain] asked me if he could use some of it,\u201d Blythe told local lifestyle publication Richmond magazine<\/span>, \u201cand I said, \u2018Sure, but why don\u2019t we just conceptualise a piece from the ground up, together?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In the interview, Blythe, who in 2013 was acquitted on manslaughter charges<\/span> in the Czech Republic, acknowledged how surprising his choice to work on a ballet might seem to fans of his metal music.<\/p>\n

\u201cArtistically, I don\u2019t live in some heavy metal cave \u2013 most of my favourite frontmen all work in various disciplines,\u201d he said, citing Henry Rollins, Nick Cave and the Jesus Lizard\u2019s David Yow as inspiring musicians who have cultivated skills in other areas.<\/p>\n

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Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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