Red Priest Interview: "A classical music concert is often very dull to watch, even though it may be wonder"

Red Priest is a baroque quartet with a difference: they present a very visual performance in addition to a lively musical impact. The Old Music Festival in Barcelona, close to its 30th birthday, is commencing a two-fold recreation of itself by including this, so called, crossover quartet in its program which hopes to attract new fans in its new location, the Barcelona Auditorium. In this way, according to the traditional festival organizer, Maricarmen Palma from La Caixa savings bank the festival will not only be rejuvenated but also “have a little fun” with the Red Priest production which “comes close to rock”. At the risk of inciting the critics fury Mrs. Palma feels that such a “specialized festival” with “so many years of history”, needs to bet on the “new and little known” in an effort to “revitalize” what was only getting “older…