He cites Hegel as a key influence and compares his music to TS Eliot. The pop-star turned symphonist discusses his plans to bring the first world war's legacy of 'mass-mechanised butchery' to life on stage " without a real person in sightA few days after I met the composer Adam Donen, he sent me an email. In our interview, he'd made so many artistic references in describing his vastly ambitious new work, Symphony to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AM on May 24, 2016