Brian May hat zur Veröffentlichung der "Queen-Symphony" einen Brief geschrieben, welchen wir hier vorstellen möchten:

Tolga Kashif - The Queen Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall, November 6th.

Anyone who’s expecting to hear mere orchestral arrangements of Queen songs on the South Bank is in for a big shock!!!!

Imagine a composer of the imagination and daring of a Tchaikovsky, a Holst, or a Mussorgsky. Imagine him let loose with the entire Queen catalogue of melodies, atmospheres and textures, and a vast orchestra and a huge choir. Then you will be close to imagining where this work begins. This is something monumental and quite outrageous. The most exciting element is probably that the composer is absolutely NOT under our control - he feels no need to use whole songs, or even whole melodies unless he feels like it at any one moment. He uses fragments, pieces of underscore, and wild extrapolations to paint his own pictures. Tolga Kashif is a man with his own agenda in this Symphony, based on the body of work which Queen built up over 30 years or so, but taking the material to an entirely new place.

We (Queen) will be attending the premiere to offer our support and endorsement, but this is the work of someone we never met until now - with a unique view and a new dream. I’m sure this Composition, as usual with Queen-related works, will provoke some violent reactions. It breaks most of the “rules” of Symphonic Form. But I am equally sure it will become an immortal favourite in the repertoire of Symphony orchestras, both amateur and professional, because it will deeply move an audience every time. And no-one will be able to dispute Mr. Kashif’s skill in conjuring up every possible colour from a full Symphony Orchestra. The Romantic Tradition is alive and well in Tolga Kashif!!! (in my opinion!)

            Brian May