It absolutely sucks. And I hate that Michael's final work--his classical album--will never see the light of day. There's no way to pay to hear that since it only exists as notes, recorded discussions, and voice memos.
What makes it an absolute tragedy in my eyes is that compared to Michael's unfinished pop songs, there's someone who knows exactly how to put it together... in a way indistinguishable from how it would have been done in 2009! In fact, the day Michael died, this person was waiting for the budget approval to hire an orchestra to record the music. Had MJ died a week later and signed off on that budget, we would have had a 45-minute classical album.
The moment David Michael Frank--the composer MJ hired to orchestrate these pieces--is gone, the chance of that music ever seeing the light of day will be gone too. He's 75 years old. The Estate never got back to him.
What a shame, really. What a shame to rob the world of hearing something so unique, created by one of the greatest musicians of all time in the final 8 weeks of his life. Yes, Michael hired David just two months before his death.
"For one of them, he had a whole section of it done in his head," Frank told Billboard. "He had not recorded it. He hummed it to me as I sat at the keyboard in his pool house and we figured it out together – I guess this recording I made is the only copy that exists of this music."
