Hee!
He's having fun with this - completely tongue-in-cheek interview here about the TSO/Mozart thing:
http://www.kelowna.com/2010/01/15/peter-paul-merriment-the-toronto-symphony-orchestra-calls-in-a-famous-face-to-narrate-a-mozart-piano-concerto/
Bits I like:
1. "Peter is responsible for the deeper background information," Gross explains, "and I get all the punchlines … we're just in the process of rehearsing now. It's going to be seamless, professional and absolutely Earth-shattering."
- SNORT!
2. When pressed for details on the roles he'll be enacting, Gross won't give any clues, but says, "I intend to improvise quite a lot. I have some things I'm just going to come up with on the spot. Some interpretive dance."
Oundjian looks at him cautiously and adds: "And I have the controls to his microphone."
:)
In other news: We've been hibernating over here due to the weather, winter and wine excess. Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. Once present we received from a fellow living-history buff was a 'Merlin' DVD - I'm now utterly obsessed with it. Colin Morgan? Best young actor I have seen for years and years, and the show's brightest asset by far. Must be something in Irish genes...
http://www.kelowna.com/2010/01/15/peter-paul-merriment-the-toronto-symphony-orchestra-calls-in-a-famous-face-to-narrate-a-mozart-piano-concerto/
Bits I like:
1. "Peter is responsible for the deeper background information," Gross explains, "and I get all the punchlines … we're just in the process of rehearsing now. It's going to be seamless, professional and absolutely Earth-shattering."
- SNORT!
2. When pressed for details on the roles he'll be enacting, Gross won't give any clues, but says, "I intend to improvise quite a lot. I have some things I'm just going to come up with on the spot. Some interpretive dance."
Oundjian looks at him cautiously and adds: "And I have the controls to his microphone."
:)
In other news: We've been hibernating over here due to the weather, winter and wine excess. Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. Once present we received from a fellow living-history buff was a 'Merlin' DVD - I'm now utterly obsessed with it. Colin Morgan? Best young actor I have seen for years and years, and the show's brightest asset by far. Must be something in Irish genes...