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Paul McCartney has performed just about everywhere including David Letterman’s marquee to rooftops. However, the next project for McCartney is a lot more delicate. The former Beatle will be writing ballet music. There isn’t much information on the ballet such as what company commissioned McCartney to write it. McCartney did tell the BBC though that he grabbed the chance to take a musical project on that he hadn’t explored yet.
McCartney said, I’m very interested to do things that I haven’t ever done before. I love to write music and this offer came up. The two things went together so I said yes. Sometimes I accept before knowing what I’m really doing. I don’t know too much about this yet, except that I will be writing music. It’s definitely a switch.
McCartney, in addition to working as a solo artist and Beatle, wrote “The Family Way movie soundtrack in 1967, has composed four releases of classical music, engaged in remixing with Liverpool Sound Collage in 2000, and also experimented with the Fireman side project with electronica.
For McCartney, it’s been a year full of firsts. Recently he became the first non-American winner of the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress for Popular Song. An all-star tribute was held at the White House in his honor. On McCartney’s “Up and Coming Tour” he is visiting cities and markets that he hasn’t played in before. “Band on the Run” from the Wings will also be reissued this August and contain bonus tracks and remastered sound.
