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The below post, originally published on Sept. 29, mentioned an AP report that has since been found to be incorrect. The Minnesota Orchestra has not recorded with Prince, but members of the orchestra — as well as members of other groups — constitute the group STRINGenius, which has recorded with Prince.
As Minnesota superstar Prince prepares to release a pair of new albums tomorrow, Sept. 30, the flamboyant but often reclusive performer has been coming out of his shell and talking to various reporters. One of them is Nekesa Mumbi Moody of the Associated Press, who recently visited Prince's Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen to interview the star and listen to a bit of music.
A fascinating tidbit from Moody's report: Prince "tapped" the Minnesota Orchestra to record music for at least one track, "a melodious instrumental track" with "lush orchestration." The track won't appear on the new albums: Prince hasn't written any lyrics for it yet. Its inspiration, reports Moody, was Dionne Warwick's 1965 song "In Between the Heartaches," which Prince also played for Moody.
Update 9/30: Minnesota Orchestra spokeswoman Gwen Pappas writes in an e-mail, "We'd love to collaborate with Prince in a recording session! The entire Orchestra hasn't actually done so to date — we suspect maybe some Orchestra musicians were involved in a pick up recording session which fueled this comments — but we'd be happy to collaborate in the future."
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