Harriet Stubbs, the artist, aims to change the face of Classical Music and combine her love of art forms, proving that Prokofiev can be as transformative as Rock n Roll.
Album & Artwork
The album is based on the concept of "The Doors of Perception" and a "marriage of contraries," reimagining traditional classical repertoire.
Album & Artwork
The album's narrative parallels William Blake's philosophy of transcendence, moving from a state of Innocence to Experience and then to a higher innocence.
Compositional Technique
The album uses D minor, often associated with death, and E major, associated with heaven, to represent the "marriage of two contrary states."
Recording & Production
The album was produced by multi-Grammy award-winning producer Russ Titelman.
Interpretation
Marianne Faithfull, an icon in the Rock world, reads text over John Adams's Phrygian Gates to represent the merging of genres and art forms.
