'Pink Floyd : The Wall' (1982)

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'Pink Floyd : The Wall' (1982) Oct 21, 2018 12:33:33 GMT Rufus-T and petrolino like this

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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Oct 21, 2018 12:33:33 GMT

Watched this at a friend's birthday party back in the 80's. None of the kids there were prepared for that, at all! Some of us were confused to whether or not Bob Geldof was the lead singer of Pink Floyd or not, others were taken aback by people being made into ground beef. It was a real record scratch moment for some.

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'Pink Floyd : The Wall' (1982) Oct 22, 2018 17:29:40 GMT petrolino likes this

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Post by Rufus-T on Oct 22, 2018 17:29:40 GMT

Nice write up, but I thought Alan Parker just missed making a fantastic movie out of the LP's concept. The LP was already one of my favorites when the movie came out, and still one of my most listened to LP. I was somewhat disappointed by the movie. Some part worked, and some didn't. I like the beginning war scene prelude, the hotel scene with the hooker played by Jenny Wright, and the ending courtroom cartoon. I wasn't sure of what to make of the meat grinder scene, and some of the surrealistic inserts. Like one of the critic said, it was just one long music video instead of a musical movie. I did not like how they could not find a spot for "Hey You", the song the summarized the tone of the story.

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'Pink Floyd : The Wall' (1982) Oct 22, 2018 18:50:54 GMT Rufus-T and petrolino like this

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Post by mikef6 on Oct 22, 2018 18:50:54 GMT

An opera based on “The Wall” premiered in Montreal. The U.S. premiere was with the Cincinnatti Opera this past summer.

Here is an advance notice from Rolling Stone Magazine:

Following the premiere of Another Brick in the Wall: L’Opera Saturday in Montreal, the production based on Pink Floyd‘s classic 1979 double LP The Wall revealed that it will debut stateside in July 2018 at the Cincinnati Music Hall.

Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera, as it will be titled for U.S. productions, will highlight the Cincinnati Music Hall’s 98th season and first since a $135 million restoration. The 70-piece Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, eight soloists and 48 chorus members will perform the opera alongside baritone Etienne Dupuis, who will reprise as rock star Pink after establishing the role in the massive Montreal production.

“There is no question about the melodies,” Cincinnati Opera artistic director Evans Mirageas told the New York Times of The Wall’s conversion from arena rocker to opera house fare. “The discovery is how those melodies have been transformed into genuine ‘opera speak.'”

Roger Waters attended the Opéra de Montréal Saturday for the production’s world premiere. “It had been my experience that experiments in collaboration between the worlds of rock and roll and the worlds of symphonic music were generally disastrous and should be embarked upon with extreme trepidation,” Waters said in March 2016, adding that hearing music from the production warmed him to the idea of turning the Pink Floyd album into an opera. “I sat there not expecting to be moved, and I was moved.”

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