This song appeared first about a summer ago at Etherfest in Leeds as a Radiohead song with Thom Yorke singing with chamber orchestra accompaniment arranged and composed with jonny Greenwood. The song has since then found its most recent incarnation as performed with the full quintet complement of Radiohead themselves, on tour and on their epoch-making record, In Rainbows.

My version leans pretty heavily on the Ether version, relishing the more minimalist/tone generative aspects inherent in the song structure. There's also still a few verses I've written that are still too hard to play. The present comfortably truncated version was recorded at Anderson Hall @ Brewster Academy during the summer residency there of the Heifetz Music Institute, where my radio program, From The Top, recorded an episode with an exemplary array of greatly gifted young musicians.

The Heifetx Institute was kind enough to import a beautifully prepared Steinway concert grand into their idyllic (America's Oldest Summer Resort is right there where we were, on Wolfeboro, New Hampshire's shores of Lake Winnepesaukee) and intensive summer program. A great trip.

Thanks to Reid for making the video which will shortly appear on NPR's website dedicated to my contributions to the radio program.

Many thanks to Berred, John, Dan and Tom for their always valued production assistance.

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Comments

[Blair]

I am a huge fan of yours. I try to tell as many people about you as I can - anyone from my grandmother, who was a concert pianist, to my contemporaries in their young 20s. I think the way you play Radiohead is one of the best interpretations of music I have heard in a long time. I appreciate your musical talent enormously. I wish your tour stopped in Washington DC!

blair-
thanks for your very kind note.
i'm sorry we missed each other in DC. i played at the kennedy center a few weeks ago with the richmond symphony, playing rachmaninoff concerto #2. we had a great time together.
i play at the keenedy center every chance i get. i hope i'll be back there again soon.
thanks again for your enthusiastic appreciation. it helps me keep on.
best,
chris