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Bryce Dessner: St. Carolyn by the Sea - Making Of
An Interview with Bryce Dessner ? Part 3

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Interview with ABC - The Music Show / Andrew Ford
1 St. Carolyn by the Sea
2 Lachrimae
3 Raphael
4 Suite from There Will Be Blood - Open Spaces
5 Future Markets
6 HW/Hope of New Fields
7 Henry Plainview
8 Proven Lands
9 Oil
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Never before have classical and rock converged in so organic, compelling and sensual a way as they do in the three short orchestral works by New York composer and guitarist Bryce Dessner on his new release St. Carolyn by the Sea, performed with the Copenhagen Phil and conducted by André de Ridder. The same is true of Jonny Greenwood, the composer of a suite of six miniatures for the soundtrack of There Will Be Blood which rounds out the album. The pairing of Dessner and Greenwood on the disc didn't come about by chance, but because André de Ridder likes programming their music together, for live concerts too. The defining strand of the collaboration is not so much the similar musical backgrounds of Dessner and Greenwood, but more their mutual preoccupation with quintessentially American themes such as the vast expanses of the country's landscape, or a sense of nostalgic longing; themes which, previously, were largely the domain of other musical genres.

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  • From The National to Taylor Swift, Bryce Dessner is modernizing music and is Yale's artist-in-residence / New Haven Register
    Posted At: May 1, 2023 12:00 AM
    New Haven Register's Andrew DaRosa writes….From composing orchestrations for Taylor Swift's "Folklore" to creating a ballet, Bryce Dessner is a hard-working indie rock musician.A long-time member of The National alongside his brother Aaron, Dessner is currently an artist-in-residence at Yale Unversity, his alma mater. At Yale's new Schwarzman Center, Dessner is working on new "multi-disciplinary works" that...
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  • Bryce Dessner and Jonny Greenwood make ULTIMATEGUITAR.COM '20 best indie rock guitarists of all time'
    Posted At: June 8, 2019 12:00 AM

    This week's traditional Wednesday Question saw the people of UG community discussing the matter of best indie rock guitarists. Based on votes and about 180 comments, we summed this one up into a top 20 rundown. Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood comes in at #5. Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner from The National come in at #15. Of course, there's no way not to mention Mr. Jonny Greenwood...
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  • Johnny Greenwood's Junun bring some unique drama to 'Colbert' / noisey
    Posted At: July 11, 2018 12:00 AM

    Junun-the collaboration between Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood, Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur, and Indian ensemble the Rajasthan Express-were the musical guest's on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. The eight-piece band (it's been a 21-piece in the past) performed the title track from their self-titled 2015 album. As they were on the album, the Rajasthan Express were the drivi...
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  • Bryce Dessner interviews with LPO before 'double piano concerto' - world premiere
    Posted At: April 13, 2018 12:00 AM

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} London Philharmonic Orchestra guest conductor; John Storgårds teams up with the world-famous Labèque sisters in something wholly new and surprising: a double piano concerto, written specially for the Labèques by composer/guitarist and Golden Globe-nominated - Bryce Dessner. The LPO is giving ...
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  • Stream Jonny Greenwood's soundtrack for 'You Were Never Really Here' / Far Out Magazine
    Posted At: March 11, 2018 12:00 AM

    Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood has been keeping himself busy recently with being in one of the world's biggest bands and composing film sound-tracks with today marking the release of another composition written for the silver screen. The Radiohead man has scored Lynne Ramsay's new mystery/thriller, ‘You Were Never Really Here'. The soundtrack is now available digitally and you can...
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  • The National writing for new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac / Far Out Magazine
    Posted At: February 12, 2018 12:00 AM

    The National are writing the music for a new adaptation of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. The play, which will be adapted by Erica Schmidt, will feature music by the National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner along with lyrics by Matt Berninger and his wife, Carin Besser. Cyrano de Bergerac, is a play written entirely in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line. The play is not dir...
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  • Jonny Greenwood's 'Phantom Thread' soundtrack, seamlessly blends with Debussy, Berlioz and Schubert / The New York Times
    Posted At: February 9, 2018 12:00 AM

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} In my effort to catch up on the best picture Oscar nominees, I keep finding myself wanting to buy tickets to see "Phantom Thread" again, if only for another opportunity to hear how its rich soundtrack, by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, so seamlessly blends with interstitial music by Debussy, Berlioz and Schubert...
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  • 'Reflected in Glass' features - Bryce Dessner's 'Reponse Lutosławski' / I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
    Posted At: January 13, 2018 12:00 AM

    Reflected in Glass is Philip Glass' first concert as Carnegie Hall's Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair, which he holds for the 2017-2018 season. It features Glass' Violin Concerto No. 2, "The American Four Seasons," with Tim Fain as soloist. Glass' work is paired with two composers he has mentored and inspired – Pauchi Sasaki and Bryce Dessner.  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0....
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  • Jonny Greenwood makes IndieWire's Top 12 most talented composers in film today
    Posted At: August 7, 2017 12:00 AM

    In an age where special effects reign supreme, there's one aspect of the filmmaking process that hasn't gone through a radical transformation - music. Some of the best movies in any given year would be sorely lacking without their memorable scores, and this has remained true well into the first two decades of the 21st century. Film composers play an integral part in the filmmaking process, and th...
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  • Bryce Dessner on Q2 - Shared Madness with Jennifer Koh
    Posted At: June 7, 2017 12:00 AM

    Bryce Dessner is a composer and guitarist in the rock band The National, and a collaborator on the upcoming album Planetarium with Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens and James McAlister. He discusses his Shared Madness piece Gift, how his work as a performer informs his writing, and how he likes letting smaller "cells of behavior" go on a creative walk. The music was recorded last May at National Sawdust as part...
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  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir plays MusicNOW finale / Cincinnati.com
    Posted At: January 17, 2017 12:00 AM

    Indeed, it was an evening of three virtuoso concertos on Saturday's MusicNOW Festival program that all drew from the past while reinventing music as something daring and different on Saturday night. A chorale for ocarinas, Renaissance polyphony, edgy modernism, Hungarian folk songs and mistuned instruments. Those were just some of the elements heard in Ligeti's Violin Concerto, a piece from the early 199...
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  • Bryce is back! at MusicNOW / Cincinnati CityBeat
    Posted At: January 12, 2017 12:00 AM

    "Bryce is Back!" appears nowhere on any advance publicity for MusicNOW, the annual festival exploring a vast spectrum of new music that is now an annual event presented by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. However, there's obvious pleasure and relief that Bryce Dessner - the now-Paris-based Cincinnati native who has found international success as a member of Rock band The National and as a solo New ...
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  • What is MusicNOW for? / WCPO: Cincinnati
    Posted At: January 8, 2017 12:00 AM

    Unless you're already a student of contemporary classical music, chances are you haven't loaded your playlist with Los Angeles composer Andrew Norman's 47-minute "Play," winner of the prestigious 2017 Grawemeyer Award. Or worked your way through composer Timo Andres' 23-minute tribute to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, "The Blind Banister." It's OK. That'...
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  • Bryce Dessner and Richard Reed Parry on EIF / Sinfini
    Posted At: August 18, 2015 12:00 AM

    As new Edinburgh International Festival director Fergus Linehan brings pop and rock music into the programme for the first time this year, from Sufjan Stevens to FFS, few musicians seem better placed to reflect on this important sea change than Bryce Dessner and Richard Reed Parry. Close friends best known as members of renowned North American indie-rock bands The National and Arcade Fire respectivel...
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  • Bryce Dessner curates inaugural Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival
    Posted At: May 7, 2015 12:00 AM

    As guitarist with The National, Bryce Dessner has cut a trail from Ohio, his birthplace, to New York, his home. As a contemporary composer of growing renown, he has collaborated with Kronos Quartet, Sufjan Stevens and Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry (sharing programmes with Steve Reich and Jonny Greenwood), often taking inspiration from American and European folk music. And as a curator of adventurous f...
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  • Bryce Dessner plays 'Classical Edge' series with Alabama Symphony Orchestra / AL.com
    Posted At: April 16, 2015 12:00 AM

    For fans of The National, he's a guitarist and songwriter of considerable skill, specializing in a heady mix of indie rock, chamber pop and Americana. But Bryce Dessner also has a classical side, composing contemporary pieces that have captured the attention of major orchestras and string quartets. His collaborators also have included Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Jonny Greenwood and Sufjan Stevens, all...
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  • Bryce Dessner's MusicNOW Festival / Cincinnati CityBeat
    Posted At: March 12, 2015 12:00 AM

    When Bryce Dessner, guitarist for international Indie Rock stars The National, founded the MusicNOW Festival in 2006, he didn't necessarily envision the three-day Indie Rock-meets-experimental/Classical music event's growth potential. He simply invited some friends to his hometown with a thought toward entertaining himself and like-minded individuals. Aware that MusicNOW could occur annually,...
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  • Walker Art Center: Composer Conversation with Bryce Dessner
    Posted At: March 4, 2015 12:00 AM

    The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is presenting - The Music of Bryce Dessner on April 3 & 4. The composer/guitarist will present new work featuring members of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Sō Percussion.  "Dessner's sensibility as a composer is furtive, urgent, intense-nothing at all, in other words, like his rock band." -Pitchfork Respected equally in the w...
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  • The National to join Cincinnati Symphony for MusicNOW / Cincinnati.com
    Posted At: December 16, 2014 12:00 AM

    The MusicNOW Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a five-day festival, which will include the debut of - The National with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Music Hall. MusicNOW was founded in 2006 by Cincinnati-born Bryce Dessner of The National with the mission to present contemporary music, commission new works and offer artists an opportunity to take risks. In the last decade, Mus...
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  • Bryce Dessner works with Brooklyn Youth Chorus for performance of "Black Mountain Songs" / Brooklyn Daily Eagle
    Posted At: October 23, 2014 12:00 AM

    Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will present "Black Mountain Songs," an evening-length choral work produced and performed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus (BYC) from Nov. 20nd to 23rd. "Black Mountain Songs" is dedicated to the late Mary Anne Yancey, former board chair of Brooklyn Youth Chorus and longstanding BAM supporter. BAM and BYC commissioned Crossover Media artist Bryce Dessner, along with his c...
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  • Jonny Greenwood plays with Australian Chamber Orchestra / Daily Express
    Posted At: October 6, 2014 12:00 AM

    Over the weekend, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood surprised the audience when he joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) on stage for the UK premiere of his latest composition, Water. The 20-minute composition is based on Phillip Larkin's poem of the same name. READ THE FULL Daily Express ARTICLE....
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  • Bryce Dessner to perform his compositions at NY's Brookfield Place Winter Garden / Classicalite
    Posted At: October 1, 2014 12:00 AM

    The National's Bryce Dessner is back at it again this time with Brooklyn-based orchestra collective, The Knights. They wil perform his own compositons on October 15th as part of New Sounds Live, a free, three-night series at New York's Brookfield Place Winter Garden. The series is curated by WNYC's New Sounds and Soundcheck host, John Schaefer. READ THE FULL Classicalite ARTICLE....
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  • Kronos Quartet premieres Bryce Dessner's '40 Canons' for Kronos@40 celebration@London's Barbican
    Posted At: May 15, 2014 12:00 AM

    San Francisco's Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet has packed a lot into 40 years. It has redefined what a quartet might look like – and has commissioned two new works for every month of its 40 years. The Quartet continued its tradition of storied Barbican appearances in a one-of-a-kind 40th-anniversary celebration on Tuesday May 13th with an evening featuring commissioned works by f...
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  • Bryce Dessner & Jonny Greenwood - St Carolyn by the Sea | There Will Be Blood / Silver Platters review
    Posted At: April 21, 2014 12:00 AM

    In mid 2013, Nonesuch released an album featuring compositions by Bryce Dessner. A little research revealed that Dessner was the guitar player from the rock band The National, but that he had initially been interested in classical and found that more mainstream music paid the bills. The disc featured none other than the Kronos Quartet, an ensemble known for their adventurousness and they gave the yo...
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  • Bryce Dessner - St Carolyn by the Sea / Rhapsody Top 10 Albums for April
    Posted At: April 15, 2014 12:00 AM

    Orchestral pieces by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood (Suite from There Will Be Blood) and The National's Bryce Dessner ("St. Carolyn By the Sea") join Rhapsody's list of Top 10 Albums for April. Dessner presents three pieces of modern classical music here, written from the perspective of a rock musician who is keenly aware of the raw emotional impact music – any music – can have on an...
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  • Rock Guitarists Go Symphonic On New Disc / Texas Public Radio feature
    Posted At: April 10, 2014 12:00 AM

    Rock and classical have been mixing together like peanut butter and chocolate since the 1960s. On one side, there were groups like Electric Light Orchestra, ELP, Gryphon, and Yes exploring adding symphonic elements to rock music, and on the other, composers such as Terry Riley, Philip Glass, and Ennio Morricone, and George Crumb borrowed the amplified sounds of rock in works such as "Black Angels" (Crumb...
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  • Bryce Dessner - St Carolyn by the Sea interview with Huffington Post
    Posted At: April 7, 2014 12:00 AM

    Since Deutsche Grammaphon/Universal Music released conductor André de Ridder and the Copenhagen Phil's St. Carolyn by the Sea -- a collection of orchestral compositions by both The National's Bryce Dessner and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood --on March 4, Dessner's seemingly nonstop schedule has shown no signs of slowing. The composer and guitarist has since contributed to the Kron...
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  • Bryce Dessner - St Carolyn by the Sea interview with ABC-Australia / The Music Show
    Posted At: March 26, 2014 12:00 AM

    Bryce Dessner is a composer and guitarist based in New York City. He's best known as a member of the rock band The National. But his work in classical circles is rapidly taking centre stage with new CD recordings featuring The Kronos Quartet and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. St Carolyn by the Sea is the title of his latest piece recorded with The Copenhagen Philharmonic and released on 28th Februa...
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  • Jonny Greenwood's 'Oil' from 'There Will Be Blood' Suite - is KDFC's Download Of the Week'
    Posted At: March 26, 2014 12:00 AM

    Each week, KDFC: San Francisco members can receive a free download from some of the biggest releases in the world of Classical music. This week, members can download the free mp3 of 'Oil'  from Greenwood's Suite from There Will Be Blood.  Popular musicians who have crossed over to classical composition have been, if not exactly commonplace, at least regular in their appearance o...
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  • Rock meets classical@Bryce Dessner MusicNOW Festival / Cincinnati.com review
    Posted At: March 17, 2014 12:00 AM

    Something unusual is happening at Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concerts this weekend. For the first time, the storied orchestra – the nation's fifth oldest – will present a subscription concert with indie rock musicians. In a bold move, Louis Langrée and the orchestra are collaborating with the MusicNOW Festival. Two different programs will match up rock-inspired world premie...
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