Void ~ Red House Painters 2016.06.04@Plaza Theater, El Paso, TX
Just wrapped Show #325 of From the Top at the Plaza Theater in El Paso, TX. I premiered, as my break piece midway through the show, a brand new arrangement I’d crafted in my long line of songs by Mark Kozelek, songwriter and lead singer of Red House Painters, his 90’s band in San Francsico,…
Mark Kozelek ~ Katy Song, Moorestown, Young Love (arrO’Riley) @Old Lyme Church 2016.03.13
It’s just over a year since Sun Kil Moon’s Third and Seneca popped up randomly on a drive in Montana. From that moment I’ve been taken over by the music of Mark Kozelek, Sun Kil Moon and his San Francisco 90’s band, Red House Painters, in a way I’d never expected. I’ve arranged songs for…
Anton Garcia-Abril ~ Cinco piezas breves IV
From the Top just wrapped Show #324 in the comfy environs of Tarisio Fine String Instruments & Bows in New York City. I played another one of the endless string of pieces I love by this eminent composer of our times, all times, Anton Garcia-Abril. We’ve struck up, Anton, his wife Aurea, and I, a…
Anton Garcia-Abril ~ Microprimaveras II @ Lubbock, TX 2016.02.26
At this summer’s Season One of concerts at TippetRise Arts Center outside Fishtail, MT, we will be featuring a set of concerts in celebration of the large-scale sculptures being installed over the coming months. Thusfar, we have commemorated installations of work by Mark DiSuvero (the Ariel Quartet performing the Heilige Dankgesang movement from Op. 132…
Michael Cisco ~ The Great Lover
“The sky has gone underground.” I have Paul Tremblay to thank for his recommendation by way of speaking the names Michael Cisco and existential Horror Master, Thomas Ligotti in the same breath. I dove in to Cisco’s debut novel, The Divinity Student and felt amply rewarded for my efforts. And effortful it can be: Cisco…
Anton Garcia-Abril ~ Tres piezas amantinas II @SJSU, 2016.02.13
In honour of Valentine’s Day, Day of Lovers, here is my performance from last night’s live taping of From the Top at San Jose State University of one of Anton Garcia-Abril’s intensely beautiful homages/invocations of young girls in love: amantinas. To Valentines of All Time, past, present and future. With love, c
Sun Kil Moon ~ Lost Verses 2016.02.07@Jordan Hall, Boston
From the Top Show #318 was recorded before a line audience last night at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston. Wild and well-earned ovations greeted all our young guests: 11-year old Katherine Liu with her bookend Chopin performances, opening with Waltz in Ab, Op. 42 and the Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 2 serving as…
Coventry Carol arrO’Riley @Kentucky PAC, From the Top, Louisville, KY, 2016.02.03
Just wrapped From the Top Show #317 in Louisville, KY with the participation of the Louisville Symphony (with their music director and From the Top bassethorn alum, Teddy Abrams performing on the 1st, non-broadcast half, selections from Stravinsky’s Firebird and one movement of Christopher Theofanidis’ Dreamtime Ancestors), Louisville Youth Orchestra (performing another movement from the…
Anton Garcia-Abril ~ Tres piezas Alejandrinas I and Balladilla del rio blanco
A large part of the mission and magic of TippetRise, the 11,500 acre home to large-scale sculpture and musical performance in Montana outside of Fishtail, MT, is the confluence of art and music. As work is being installed and performance spaces are being constructed prefatory to the first season of concerts in Summer 2016, we…
Eunice Kim plays Ashokan Farewell and Sun Kil Moon ~ Bay of Skulls
Even though we’re still nearly a year til the first season of concerts takes place in the Summer of ’16 at TIppetRise, the Arts Centre on 11.500 acres just outside Fishtail, MT, large-scale sculptures are being installed on the grounds, and I’ve been commemorating those installations with private events for installation and local construction crew…