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| Genre mixing pianist returns to Miller Theatre |
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| Christopher O'Riley by Da-Hong Seetoo Shostakovich Meets Radiohead at the Keyboard by Vivien Schweitzer The New York Times Sunday, March 22, 2009 "In Coming to America, a song by the rapper Ludacris, themes from the Dies irae of Mozart's Requiem and the fourth movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony appear prominently under the explicit lyrics. The March of the Wooden Soldiers from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker received a colorful rock makeover in the 1960s hit Nut Rocker. Many pop musicians have poached classical melodies, and Bach has proved irresistible to jazz artists like Uri Caine and Jacques Loussier. In the classical sphere prominent performers are usually more decorous about pilfering from the musical storage cabinet. But the pianist Christopher O'Riley has no such inhibitions. On Friday at Miller Theatre Mr. O'Riley will perform his own creative transcriptions of Radiohead songs alongside Shostakovich preludes and fugues in the first of a three-part series called 2 + 2 = 5 (also the name of a Radiohead song). Later Mr. O'Riley will play music by singer-songwriters whom he admires alongside works by classical composers, pairing Nich Drake with Debussy on April 17 and Elliott Smith with Schumann on May 1." Click here to read the full article. Tickets to Radiohead + Dmitri Shostakovich are SOLD OUT, but tickets are still available for the April 17 and May 1 Christopher O'Riley performances. |
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