Harry’s speech before coming up roses🥹
Um, so I wanna just tell you a little story about when I met Jules and played him some
music, and there was a very specific song, um, that I played him. We met in my living room and
I was playing the song “Coming Up Roses” that we’re attempting to arrange the strings for. And,
um, I’d heard this song quite recently in my life by Patrick Watson called “Here Comes the
River” and, uh, there’s this tension in the strings. It’s the same four chords round and round,
but as it’s building, it, the tension just kind of keeps going and going and going, and never
quite releases. And I played it to Jules and said, “This is, this is the feeling that I want in these
strings. I want it to just keep lifting and never quite...I want it to inhale and inhale and inhale
and never quite exhale.” So I played him the song and I said, “What do you think?” And he says,
“Yeah, I did those strings.”😭So we were off to quite a good start then. So, I said, “Oh, yeah, just do that again then.” So, um, we’re gonna hear another piece by Jules, um, with a wonderful cello solo by Ian Birch to my left over here. And then, uh, and then we’ll play something else.
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