Richard Grayson

Richard Grayson’s most recent work may present a painful musical challenge to friends of traditional performance praxis. After all, the British artist has applied himself to an almost holy cultural relic and is presenting a new Country and Western adaptation of Handel’s “Messiah”. Grayson is primarily interested in the libretto, which propagates a messianic interpretation of the Bible. In the context of his country adaptation, this seems to refer to a conservative American political tradition.