In the Mozart, he brought the orchestra's style more fully into the spirit of the 18th-century than most conductors manage. The mood of the piece is one of foreboding, punctuated with heavy, percussive convulsions, with chords of low, threatening brass, like a barely contained braying, the whole work having a fractured style, like an effects piece from the 1960s.ĭavid Brophy's no-nonsense, matter-of-fact approach served all three works well. Ian Wilson's Licht/ung was written "after seeing some work by the Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu, pictures of Nagasaki and some of its residents 16 years after the atom bomb explosion". There's an idea for a video right there! Whites dancing and blacks struggling.The work blends a backward-looking melancholy romanticism and a thoroughly up to the minute fractured rhythmical writing in a way that allows it to belong to two traditions.
"It sounds like all whites want to do is party. "Some white folks are uncomfortable with that title because there's no hyphen," he says mischievously. "Racism is so rampant and I have to face it every day, all the time, even if I don't leave the house, because there's the Internet. Lightburn is far less forthcoming about the events behind the impossibly catchy, Morrissey-like "Whites Only Party." "It's too personal for me to tell you," he says. "So I was able to turn that into a song about putting a lot of work into something that doesn't stand - a sand castle getting kicked over, a house of cards getting blown over - and not letting it get you down." "I was wearing a flowing "Sheltering Sky' white shirt and off-white pants, playing Pictionary and drinking tequila sunrises when someone spilled an entire tequila sunrise on the outfit I had been bragging about all day - in jest, of course," recalls Lightburn. He was inspired to write the song while visiting friends at their country home. "It's about not being attached to things of the flesh," says Lightburn, "even if your house burns down and all your goes with it." The sunny-sounding "There Goes My Outfit" drives home the point. "Patrick was obsessed with Jimi Hendrix."Ĭompared to "No Cities Left," says Lightburn, "Gang of Losers" is "very stripped down on every possible level." As for the band's musical influences, "it's been everything from Pink Floyd to Guns N' Roses to the Smiths and Jackson 5 and French chansonniers," says Lightburn.
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