“An Extraordinary Experience To Perform”: Bill Murray And Friends On Their Concert Doc ‘New Worlds: The Cradle Of Civilization’
deadline.comIn the birthplace of Western philosophy, Bill Murray dropped some wisdom on a receptive audience.“I swear to you,” he told the crowd in Athens, quoting Walt Whitman, “there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”Divine things, like the music of Bach, Shostakovich and Ravel, the melodies of Gershwin and Bernstein, the songs of Stephen Foster and Van Morrison.For one magical evening in 2018, on terrain once walked by Socrates and Plato, Murray was joined by cellist Jan Vogler, violinist Mira Wang, and pianist Vanessa Perez for a concert combining music and poetry.
The film New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization captures that performance at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus near the Acropolis, the culmination of a tour that took the quartet to Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, the U.S., and across Europe to their final date in Greece.The show grew out of a friendship between Murray and Vogler, who originally met on a flight from Berlin to New York.
They bonded over a shared appreciation of the arts.“We hit it off and then we kept crashing into each other and sharing each other’s experiences in music and movies and art and poetry,” Murray explains of their early encounters. “Jan texted me one day, said, ‘Hey, you know, we could do a show.
We could travel the whole world.’ I thought, ‘My God, whoever gets a text like that? Whoever gets a message that we could travel the whole world?’ I mean, only a liar says that kind of stuff.
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