"For me [Big Boi's music] sounds like Shostakovich, Stravinsky a little ... just today's Stravinsky," Stallings said.
Say that aloud!
Antwan "Big Boi" Patton from Outkast has joined forces with a choreographer for the Atlanta Ballet, Lauri Stallings, to create six performances of a collaboration between Big Boi and the Atlanta Ballet: a work called "big"
Since Opera Chic's iPod is usually half-stuffed with opera and half with rap (and given Esa-Pekka Salonen famous theory that Mozart, back in the great man's day, had the same gut impact on audiences of Metallica today), we can only give this beautiful initiative our full endorsement.
