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Title: better than the Oratorio
Review: McCartney works best in short form...some of his best songs like Admiral Halsey or Band on the Run are the skilled fusion of 2 or more melodies...McCartney and Lennon did this in a A Day in A Life...which is their magnum opus...however, Standing Stone just doesn't go anywhere until the finale...it may have made a good film score, but as a classical piece, it doesn't go anywhere...there are some neat melodic shifts here and there, and I give it 2 stars for the lilting finale...it is definitely a step ahead of the absolutley tedious Oratorio...I think that his next classical project, composed of several shorter works will prove to be the most listenable as they are not long ambitious works....we'll see....
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