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Steve Reich Featured in Kraków's Sacrum Profanum Festival; Reich, Jonny Greenwood Perform in Opening Concert on Polish Radio
5, Sep 09, 2011
Steve Reich is in Kraków, Poland, for the ninth annual Sacrum Profanum festival, which gets under way on Sunday with an inaugural concert broadcast on Polish Radio 2. The week-long festival offers a retrospective of some of the composer's most iconic works, along with newer additions to his repertoire, and features performances by Jonny Greenwood, Alarm Will Sound, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble Modern, Aphex Twin, Tom Verlaine, and the composer himself.
Jonny Greenwood's "Doghouse" US Concert Premiere, Featuring Music of "Norwegian Wood," Now Available on NPR.org
3, May 25, 2011
Jonny Greenwood's orchestral piece Doghouse, featuring music used in his Norwegian Wood film score, received its US premiere in concerts with works by Philip Glass and György Ligeti at the NY Society for Ethical Culture last weekend. The concert is now available online at npr.org. "As with so much of Glass' output, there's something innately cinematic about Greenhouse's work," says NPR, "as well as a regal self-containment that evokes his hero Ligeti and is matched with a thrillingly dark tension." NPR calls it a concert "rich with ideas and emotions." The New York Times calls Doghouse "consistently involving."
Jonny Greenwood's "Doghouse," Featuring Music of "Norwegian Wood," Gets US Premiere in NYC, Webcast Live on Q2
5, May 20, 2011
Jonny Greenwood's orchestral piece Doghouse, featuring music used in his Norwegian Wood film score, receives its US premiere in performances by Ensemble Signal with the Wordless Music Orchestra and conductor Brad Lubman at the New York Society for Ethical Culture tonight and tomorrow night. Tonight's concert will be webcast live on Q2. The Wall Street Journal says the Radiohead guitarist's "sideline role as a composer of orchestral music might just trump what he's been up to with his band."
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Jonny Greenwood Talks to BBC 6 Music About "Norwegian Wood," "There Will Be Blood," Radiohead, and More
5, Mar 04, 2011
The soundtrack for Norwegian Wood, the new film based on Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel, featuring a score by Jonny Greenwood, is out next week. Greenwood spoke with BBC 6 Music about finding inspiration for the score in Murakami's novel, his acclaimed score for There Will Be Blood, and future plans for Radiohead. MusicOMH says Greenwood's new score "shows how the string orchestra remains a descriptive force in the right hands." The Evening Standard says it "creates a powerful atmosphere" for the film.
Norwegian Wood [trailer]
Watch: "Norwegian Wood" Official Film Trailer; Jonny Greenwood Score Out in March
5, Feb 18, 2011
Norwegian Wood, director Anh Hung Tran's adaptation of the Haruki Murakami novel, will hit UK theatres on March 11. The soundtrack, out on Nonesuch March 7 in the UK and March 8 in the US, features an instrumental score by Jonny Greenwood performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Emperor Quartet, as well as three tracks written and performed by CAN, and is now available for pre-order in the Nonesuch Store. Watch the film trailer here.
Nonesuch Records to Release Jonny Greenwood's "Norwegian Wood" Soundtrack
3, Feb 02, 2011
Nonesuch releases guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood’s instrumental score to director Tran Anh Hung’s new film Norwegian Wood on March 8. An adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel, the film will be released in the UK on March 11 and stars Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, and Kiko Mizuhara. The score is performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra led by Robert Ziegler, and the Emperor Quartet, and is produced by Graeme Stewart. The soundtrack album also features three tracks written and performed by CAN.
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
Jonny Greenwood's "There Will Be Blood" Score Awarded The Ivor
4, May 21, 2009
Congratulations to Jonny Greenwood, whose score for Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood has won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score. The Ivors are awarded for outstanding achievement to British songwriters and composers. The awards, now in their 54th year, are presented annually by BASCA, the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors, at Grosvenor House in London.
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Jonny Greenwood Piece Gets West Coast Premiere in "Wordless Music"'s SF Debut
4, Aug 21, 2008
Jonny Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver will receive its West Coast premiere tonight at San Francisco's Herbst Theatre. The composer included excerpts from the piece in his score for the Oscar-winning film There Will Be Blood, which you can listen to here. Tonight's concert also marks the San Francisco debut of New York's Wordless Music Series (helmed by Nonesuch's own Ronen Givony), which is presenting the concert and which gave the piece's US premiere in New York earlier this year.
Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone
Paul O’Dette explores the rich repertoire of Elizabethan lute music, with pieces from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The New York Times praised O’Dette’s playing as “fleet and clean,” saying “he tempers sheer virtuosity with an emotional warmth that makes this antique music seem not very distant at all.”
Jonny Greenwood "There Will Be Blood" [cover]
Jonny Greenwood Piece to Be Performed by Alabama Symphony
2, Mar 18, 2008
Jonny Greenwood's composition Popcorn Superhet Receiver, parts of which can be heard in the score for There Will Be Blood, will be performed by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra on April 10. Popcorn Superhet Receiver received its US premiere this past January as part of the Wordless Music Series in New York.