Bryce Dessner, solo guitar piece — "Garcia Counterpoint," live in San Francisco, Feb. 22, 2019 (HD) скачать в хорошем качестве

Bryce Dessner, solo guitar piece — "Garcia Counterpoint," live in San Francisco, Feb. 22, 2019 (HD)

Bryce Dessner plays his "Garcia Counterpoint" guitar composition live in concert during the Wires program at the San Francisco Symphony Sound Box on February 22, 2019. The piece's inspiration is a Jerry Garcia guitar solo from a live version of the song Althea. Dessner invokes and reinterprets fragments of this solo, layering them in a lovely minimalist fugue. Garcia Counterpoint originally appeared on "Day of the Dead," a 2016 Grateful Dead tribute album curated by Bryce and his twin brother Aaron. The song's original dedication was, "For Jerry Garcia and Steve Reich." Aaron and Bryce Dessner are members of the indie rock band The National. ================================================ Bryce Dessner's bio from the SoundBox program: Born in Cincinnati, OH, curator and composer Bryce Dessner is known to many as a guitarist with Grammy Award-winning band The National. His orchestral, chamber, and vocal compositions have been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (for the New York Philharmonic), Kronos Quartet, BAM Next Wave Festival, Barbican Centre, Edinburgh International Festival, Sydney Festival, Eighth Blackbird, Sō Percussion, New York City Ballet, and many others. He has worked with some of the world’s most creative and respected musicians and visual artists including Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Johnny Greenwood, Justin Peck, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Matthew Ritchie, among others. His Murder Ballades is featured on Eighth Blackbird’s album Filament—an album on which he also produced and performed; it won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. In fall 2015 Mr. Dessner, along with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, composed music for Oscar-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu’s film, The Revenant, which received a 2016 Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score and a 2017 Grammy Award nomination in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category. Now residing in Paris, Mr. Dessner has been increasingly active composing for major European ensembles and soloists. Last fall he premiered a new piece entitled Wires commissioned for the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Matthias Pintscher, as well as recent solo works for violinists Pekka Kuusisto and Jennifer Koh, and a concerto for renowned pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque. May 2016 saw the release of Day of the Dead, a follow-up to 2009’s charity album Dark Was the Night. A tribute album to the Grateful Dead, Day of the Dead was created, curated, and produced by Bryce and his brother Aaron. All profits help fight for AIDS/HIV and related health issues around the world through the Red Hot Organization. In May 2015, Mr. Dessner was tapped to curate Mountains and Waves, a weekend-long celebration of his music at the Barbican in London. In September 2015, he curated Sounds From A Safe Harbour, a weekend of performances at the Cork Opera House in Ireland. MusicNOW, the Cincinnati-based contemporary music festival he founded in 2006, has featured Tinariwen, Justin Vernon, Joanna Newsom, David Lang, Grizzly Bear, Perfume Genius, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2015, MusicNOW celebrated its ten-year anniversary. To mark the occasion, an album titled MusicNOW: 10 Years, comprised of the festival’s best live performances, was released. ======================================= SF Symphony Program notes for Garcia counterpoint: BRYCE DESSNER, Garcia Counterpoint, for Solo Electric Guitar and Tape 2015 | 8 mins In 2015, brothers Bryce (b.1976) and Aaron Dessner of The National fame curated an epic 59-song Grateful Dead tribute album entitled Day of the Dead, a comprehensive compilation that features the talents of a wide swathe of artists. The album celebrates the vast, masterful catalog of songs written by Grateful Dead singer/guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, and lyricists Robert Hunter and John Barlow (the four who composed the lion’s share of the Dead’s music). Bryce’s own contribution to the album, Garcia Counterpoint, is far from a Dead cover. Bryce summons his substantial compositional chops to transcribe one of Jerry Garcia’s famed guitar solos, reformulating and dosing it with “the Steve Reich (b.1936) treatment.” The result is a lush instrumental tribute to Jerry’s unique sound. Garcia Counterpoint adds yet another dimension to the mother of all tribute albums, one that elevates the Dead—and pioneering composer Steve Reich and Bryce himself—as major contributor to the Great American Songbook.