Blair Thomson, Half Moon Run arranger for the OSM: Chapter 2!

Interview by Alain Brunet
Genres and styles : Orchestral Pop

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In 2017, Blair Thomson arranged his first symphonic program with Montreal band Half Moon Run and the OSM. Blair Thomson had already arranged for (among others) Michel Rivard and La Symphonie rapaillée, and the experience with HMR had been more than conclusive, with audiences and critics raving about it. Spring 2025, a second symphonic chapter is written shortly after the release of the Another Woman EP. Blair Thomson has refined the orchestral discourse, even more in tune with the famous pop band. There will be hits, there will be harmonized vocals, there will be Devon Portielje, Conner Molander and Dylan Phillips, and there will be the OSM under the direction of Adam Johnson!

The architect of all this explains its construction with PAN M 360. Alain Brunet interviewed Blair Thomson before he went to the dress rehearsal, preceding the three-day Half Moon Run cycle at the Maison symphonique.

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