{"id":82950,"date":"2014-05-08T08:16:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T07:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=82950"},"modified":"2014-05-08T08:16:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T07:16:24","slug":"polarpriset-till-chuck-berry-och-peter-sellars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=82950","title":{"rendered":"Polarpriset till Chuck Berry och Peter Sellars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Polarpriset, eller Polar Music Prize, \u00e4r ett av musikbranschens mest prestigefyllda priser. Bland tidigare pristagare hittar vi namn som Paul McCartney, Led Zeppelin och Bob Dylan. P\u00e5 en presskonferens som \u00e4gde rum i\u00a0Stadshuset i Stockholm tillk\u00e4nnagavs imorse att 2014 \u00e5rs pris tillfaller en av rock’n’rollens f\u00f6rgrundsgestalter : Chuck Berry.<\/p>\n

F\u00f6dd i St. Louis 1926 \u00e4r det knappast en \u00f6verdrift att kalla den snart nittio\u00e5riga s\u00e5ngaren och gitarristen en av de mest inflytelserika musikerna n\u00e5gonsin;\u00a0Johnny B. Goode<\/em> har influerat flera generationer av gitarrister.<\/p>\n

”The Polar Music Prize 2014 is awarded to Chuck Berry from St. Louis, USA. The parameters of rock music were set one day in May 1955, when Chuck Berry recorded his debut single ’Maybellene’. Chuck Berry was the rock\u2019n\u2019roll pioneer who turned the electric guitar into the main instrument of rock music. Every riff and solo played by rock guitarists over the last 60 years contains DNA that can be traced right back to Chuck Berry. The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and a million other groups began to learn their craft by playing Chuck Berry songs. Chuck Berry is also a superb songwriter. In the course of three minutes he conjures up an image of the everyday life and dreams of a teenager, often with the focus on cars. Chuck Berry, born in 1926, was the first to drive up onto the highway and announce that we are born to run.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I vanlig ordning utses en pristagare inom popul\u00e4rmusik och en inom klassisk musik, s\u00e5ledes g\u00e5r 2014 pris \u00e4ven till Peter Sellars.<\/p>\n

”The Polar Music Prize 2014 is awarded to Peter Sellars from Pittsburgh, USA. The director Peter Sellars is a living definition of what the Polar Music Prize is all about: highlighting the music and presenting it in a new context. With his controversial productions of opera and theatre, Peter Sellars has depicted everything from war and famine to religion and globalisation. Sellars has set Mozart in the luxury of Trump Tower and in the drug trade of Spanish Harlem, turned Nixon\u2019s visit to China into opera and set Kafka\u2019s obsession with home cleanliness to music. Peter Sellars shows us that classical music is not about dusty sheet music and metronomic precision, but that classical music, with its violent power and complexity, has fundamentally always been and will continue to be a way of reflecting and depicting the world.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Du kan se videopresentationer av b\u00e5de Chuck Berry och Peter Sellars h\u00e4r nedan:<\/strong><\/p>\n