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EAST COAST PREMIERE OF NEW COMPOSITION
Anastasio by Rod Snyder |
Trey Anastasio will join Music Director Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for orchestrations of classic Phish tunes and the East Coast premiere of his composition "Time Turns Elastic" at 8 pm on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Tickets will be available through a real time pre-sale beginning Thursday, February 19th at 5 pm (EST) and ending Friday, February 27th at Noon (EST) at treytickets.rlc.net Tickets go on-sale to the public Saturday, February 28th at noon (EST). Audio taping tickets will not be sold for this event.
The first half of the program features classic Phish songs and solo Trey compositions, while second half of the program features the East Coast premiere of "Time Turns Elastic," co-composed by Anastasio and long-time collaborator Don Hart. "Time Turns Elastic" is a groundbreaking work for vocals, electric guitar and orchestra with long, orchestral passages intertwined with epic guitar lines and vocals in the vein of such classic Anastasio compositions as "The Divided Sky," "Guyute" and "Fluffhead." With Anastasio's electric guitar at the forefront, "Time Turns Elastic" pushes the limits of orchestral music and delivers a complete articulation of the Baltimore Symphony's mission to present new musical collaborations that challenge and inspire audiences.
"Most of the time when people use an electric instrument with an orchestra, they destroy the capability to blend," notes Anastasio. "Our approach is to handle it as any other solo instrument. I play at the volume of say, an oboe, so Don can orchestrate around the guitar."
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