002 Look At Him Working - Writing the string score for "Eleanor Rigby"

George Martin’s score for “Eleanor Rigby” builds on the classical string quartet form that the producer introduced The Beatles to on the song “Yesterday.” In this episode, we examine the writing and recording of the score with cellist Karen Ray, and we also consider Martin’s unusual source of inspiration for this dramatic piece of music.

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002 Look At Him Working - Writing the string score for "Eleanor Rigby" is an episode from Producing The Beatles by Jason Kruppa.

This episode is 21:00 long.

This episode was published on Sep 17, 2018.

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