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20:00 | Jonny Greenwood & The London Contemporary Orchestra (UK) |
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In October 2015 Radiohead guitarist and acclaimed composer Jonny Greenwood will hold a concert with the London Contemporary Orchestra at YotaSpace club in Moscow. Greenwood will perform new music, selections from his film scores (including, most recently, Inherent Vice), as well as songs by other musicans selected in tandem with the orchestra. For example the concert will feature cues from "There Will Be Blood", "Norwegian Wood" and "The Master" alongside new and recent material by Greenwood, and works by Steve Reich, Purcell, J.S. Bach and Edmund Finnis. Greenwood's show with the London Contemporary Orchestra will differ from typical classical music performances in several ways. Instead of sitting in assigned seats, members of the audience were free to move about the space of the club as they wished and can participate in the performance. In an interview with journalist Chris Woolfrey for Boiler Room, Greenwood said about his concert with London Contemporary Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall in Manchester, England, in November 2014: "I felt really high afterwards. Lots of things just seemed to work. Not necessarily the pieces, but the idea of playing them like that. What was good - all these little four or five minutes pieces, and all this faffing around in between, it allowed the audience to talk to each other. There are things that people don't like, and I find it really interesting that you can have that sort of reaction straight away, with certain things not going down well." Although most people's initial musical exposure to Jonny Greenwood came via his hugely distorted guitar crunches on Radiohead's breakthrough single "Creep," Greenwood (not to be confused with his older brother/bass-playing bandmate Colin Greenwood) could be more appropriately described as Radiohead's jack-of-all-trades - a multi-instrumentalist who is as comfortable playing xylophone, sampler, or keyboards (to name just a few) as his uniquely angular guitar lines. Along with Thom Yorke's inimitable vocals, Jonny Greenwood's wide array of unconventional sonic textures helped to define Radiohead's distinctive sound and push the boundaries of their music into unusual and decidedly non-rock directions. Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood was born on November 5, 1971, in Oxford, England. Along with his brother Colin, Greenwood attended Abingdon School near Oxford; it was here that the older Colin first came into contact with schoolmate Thom Yorke. Before long, the duo was playing music together in a project dubbed TNT. Guitarist Ed O'Brien and drummer Phil Selway were soon admitted into the fold, and the new band adopted the moniker On a Friday (in reference to the day of the week they would routinely get together and practice). Jonny Greenwood, who was a couple of years younger than the other four, repeatedly asked to play with the group; he was finally invited to play harmonica with On a Friday at a 1987 gig at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. This proved to be his initiation into the band; he later took over keyboard duties for the group before finally switching into the role of lead guitarist. Read more
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