They've never heard their music in that context. They've heard their recording over and over and over again. But with the strings added to it, it just added a whole new level and took their song to a new level, a whole new interpretation. And the audience clearly loved it.
"We just need to expand in terms of what this generation wants, especially as a black person classical music is not one of the music forms that we typically have an emotional connection to, but you know, we have emotional connections just in general to jazz, to hip-hop, things like that... "
So if we're able to bring that same type of emotional high to other music, because even when we were playing at the Kennedy Center, De La Soul kept complimenting us saying, you guys sound so good. And we're like, no, like this is y'all's show. We're just here to like add, you know, a little extra to it.
The Concert:
Robert Glasper—Black Radio: Duke x Dilla concert honoring Duke Ellington and J Dilla with special guests De La Soul; The Black Radio Orchestra, with the The Randolph Quartet, led and conducted by Derrick Hodge.
The Clip:
Artworks: The Art of Strings. Click here to view the full film.
"Artworks" is made possible in part by The Citizens of Baltimore County and by the Ruth R. Marder Arts Endowment Fund, the Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Endowment for the Arts, The E.T. and Robert B. Rocklin Fund, The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation Arts Endowment in memory of Ruth Marder.
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