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Composer Max Richter: ‘I’m a low-key raver! I love all kinds of music’
The creator of the most streamed classical album of all time on working with Margaret Atwood, enjoying Eurovision, and uniting people through music
A new ballet, MaddAddam, a collaboration between Richter and choreographer Wayne McGregor, with Margaret Atwood as a creative consultant, opens at the Royal Opera House on 14 November. A lot of their songs sound like mantras, full of a rhythmic sort of repetitiveness, which really ties into systems music for me [like the work of Steve Reich and Philip Glass]. Recently, I’m more struck by the staging, like the man playing the grand piano on fire [in the ], plus the guy in that ginormous hamster wheel [in Ukraine’s 2014 entry, Tick-Tock] was a bit of a classic.
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