This performance was recorded as part of a From the Top live taping @ the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, AZ on 2008.11.18.
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This performance was recorded as part of an Indianapolis taping of From The Top @ Warren Performing Arts Center on 2008.12.06
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This was my breakpiece at the From the Top taping on 2008.10.11@Northfield Mount Herman Academy's beautiful new concert hall.
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In memoriam, Rick Wright, the composer of the song.
this audio came out of live video capture for eventual uplink @ NPR Music.
our radio broadcast innaugurated their beautiful new concert hall, and a great Steinway concert grand was graciously provided through Steinway's Boston affiliate. the instrument was lovingly prepared (and vigilance was key, as i knocked a solid tuning for a loop with the pieces i was recording) and looked after by Shaun O'Connell, an artisan and a gentleman.
thanks as always to the discerning ears of our From The Top sound crew, Berred Ouelette, Dan Hallas and John Servies.
thanks to David Balsom for putting it together, and to Elizabeth DeVore who takes waay too good care of me, onstage and off, and for Reid: i hope your arm isn't too tired dude; now get cracking and cut this puppy together!
cheers
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This arrangement comes from work I did over the summer. I finally had the chance to play it for the first time as part of a From the Top taping that took place in San Antonio, TX @ Laurie Auditorium, 2008.09.13. Sadly, the performance of this great Kurt Cobain song occured the same weekend one of my favorite writers, David Foster Wallace, took his own life. His wife discovered he'd hung himself in their home in Claremont, CA, where David was an inspirational presence at Pomona College. 'Infinite Jest' is in my top-five books of all time. It's devastating to know that such a voice will be silent forever more. Both David and Kurt will be sorely missed.
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new material:
this audio came out of live video capture for eventual uplink @ NPR Music.
our radio broadcast innaugurated their beautiful new concert hall, and a great Steinway concert grand was graciously provided through Steinway's Boston affiliate. the instrument was lovingly prepared (and vigilance was key, as i knocked a solid tuning for a loop with the pieces i was recording) and looked after by Shaun O'Connell, an artisan and a gentleman.
thanks as always to the discerning ears of our From The Top sound crew, Berred Ouelette, Dan Hallas and John Servies.
thanks to David Balsom for putting it together, and to Elizabeth DeVore who takes waay too good care of me, onstage and off, and for Reid Mangan, who shot the first one (Lost of Love, presently up on NPR Music) so well, i'm looking forward to seeing more. thanks, Reid.
cheers
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The Bad Plus played a stellar weekend at the Catalina Bar & Grill in Los Angeles.
Here's their incredible take Saturday night on Neil Young's 'Heart of Gold':
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Friday night:
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This premiere performance was part of the live taping of From the Top that took place at Harris Concert Hall @ Aspen Music Festival on 2008.08. 10
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This was my first performance of this brand new arrangement, played as part of our From The Top live taping as hosted by the International Institute for Young Musicians at the University of Kansas, 2008.07.15 @ the Lied Center in Lawrence, KS.
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This was my break-piece at our From the Top taping in Wolfeboro, NH @ the Heifetz Music Institute on 2008.07.09.
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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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