That goes for everyone on the record, including the instrumentalists.
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Because we play pretty nicely, but we're not virtuosic instrumentalists.
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With frequent solos and duets, the instrumentalists are extremely exposed.
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With instrumentalists you want the same: They are essentially singing.
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Mr. Padmore's light, clear tenor sometimes floated easily above the instrumentalists.
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Choristers, instrumentalists and audiences alike repeatedly shuttled up and down Lower Broadway.
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They have to prove themselves in chamber music, collaborating with other instrumentalists.
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Instrumentalists include the pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and the percussionist Ayano Kataoka.
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The lineup of percussionists also includes other instrumentalists, including the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler.
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So we want to be great composers, and great instrumentalists, and great everything.
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The show includes 150 instrumentalists, 32 bell ringers, and several actors and dancers.
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Several solo instrumentalists — above all, Benjamin Bowman (violin and concertmaster) — showed marvelous eloquence.
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And the two-dozen instrumentalists, variously deployed, mitigated any sense of bleak isolation.
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Still, it turns out that instrumentalists play closer to their musical targets than singers.
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And you need an army of instrumentalists and singers willing to double as dancers.
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Then, when collaborating with instrumentalists, she figures out how to produce those sounds acoustically.
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"Chetham's is set up for extremely gifted instrumentalists," Mr. Rattle said in an interview.
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Two young singers and two instrumentalists play the long "Bayati Shiraz" overture, which is undanced.
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He and Quincy Jones watched from the sidelines as the instrumentalists made their joyous entrance.
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But the reality was that young British instrumentalists were likely to lose out, he said.
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What are the qualities you look for in the singers and instrumentalists you work with?
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When they aren't part of the action, the members of the chorus stand behind the instrumentalists .
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Two mature singers, 10 instrumentalists and 16 dancers (seven women, nine men) then perform the opera.
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During a nearly two-hour set, instrumentalists played slowly unfolding modes over electronic, just-intonation harmonies.
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The dozen instrumentalists played behind the scrim used for the projections, individuals sometimes visible in shadow.
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When some instrumentalists came in at first, they didn't know what was going on, a little bit.
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Some of the young instrumentalists seemed to struggle to maintain consistency over the marathon length of the symphony.
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And all the instrumentalists joined in the concluding Orchestral Suite No. 3, the one with the famous Air.
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The audience (inevitably small) follows the performers from room to room, along with a roving roster of instrumentalists.
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The two instrumentalists are in a constant state of change but remain deeply connected, and seemingly at peace.
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The chorus and instrumentalists included performers from West and East Germany, Leningrad and London, Paris and New York.
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Around this the instrumentalists built up an angular, layered score, infused with tropical colors underneath Ms. Worden's helium vocals.
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The black artists include three singers, four instrumentalists and three conductors: Chelsea Tipton III, Kwamé Ryan and Mr. Abdullah.
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He's embracing that affinity with a new 16-piece band, Orquesta Akokán, featuring some of the island's greatest instrumentalists.
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She put together the concert with help from the fledging yet formidable American Modern Opera Company, which supplied instrumentalists.
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" Secondly, Davis says listening to Steven Price's Gravity soundtrack made him think about "collaborating with instrumentalists—not necessarily beatmakers.
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For the Ratmansky solo, Luigi Boccherini's irresistible "Fandango" (1798) was played by the Flux Quartet with two other instrumentalists.
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Here, the singers and the instrumentalists are in the pit, and the characters are danced by Mr. Morris's company.
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At first, this group improvisation felt serene, as instrumentalists circled the crowd and paced the margins of the venue.
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At times, as in Peter Sellars's dramatizations of the Bach Passions , the instrumentalists were drawn into the field of action.
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That says something about this musical genre, whose history includes noted female vocalists but often unsung and underrepresented female instrumentalists.
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Maybe it bears mentioning, though, that "Exposure" was one of many arresting statements made by female jazz instrumentalists this year.
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Twenty-first-century singers, like 21st-century instrumentalists and orchestras, are rightly expected to range widely as well as deeply.
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Dio and Boleyn bonded over many things: a shared love of running, being instrumentalists-turned-vocalists, their unusual singing styles.
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The throng of tourists, students and businesspeople on lunch breaks are waiting to listen to instrumentalists from the Philharmoniker play Bach.
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The all-women brass band, Cora Youngblood Corson and the Instrumentalists, which traveled through France with the Knights of Columbus, 1918.
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For the other guys like Dan Gargiulo (guitarist), and the other instrumentalists, Deathspell Omega and Gorguts were the two key influences.
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The groove these players produce offers a seductive, swaying contrast to the airs of fraying unease coming from the other instrumentalists.
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He quickly expanded to a quartet alongside fellow NYU classmates, drummer Chris Bear, and multi-instrumentalists Daniel Rossen and Chris Taylor.
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" She added, "They gave a start to so many young singers and instrumentalists who are now stars in the historical performance movement.
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Later in the movement, the instrumentalists perform their tasks with increasing halfheartedness—"as if losing interest in the music," the score says.
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In a way, instrumentalists are claiming for themselves the complete performance experience that has so far been the prerogative of opera singers.
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The Chicago label International Anthem is best known as a jazz imprint, and a home for the city's ascendant scene of experimental instrumentalists.
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When people see you live, did that kind of help introduce you as a writer to some of these bigger artists and instrumentalists?
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While navigating that fog, the instrumentalists only briefly touch on notes of distress, before eventually relaxing back into a gentler state of communion.
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Of the 1,900 avocational instrumentalists who expressed interest in participating, 1,000 were auditioned online, and the Berlin Philharmonic musicians then selected the 101.
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Last week the instrumentalists of Acronym offered "From Venice to Vienna," a motley program of almost wholly unknown works from the 17th century.
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From symphony orchestras to chamber concerts, instrumentalists are asserting their physical, individual presences in ways that are by turns whimsical, heartbreaking or strange.
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Mr. Creed's passion for music is apparent in small troupes — four instrumentalists, one singer with megaphone — that rove through the show at all times.
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The large cast includes actors, singers, dancers and instrumentalists with the St. Mark's Choir, the Good Friday Blues Band and the Vissi Dance Company.
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Until instrumentalists and songwriters of the fairer gender start joining forces on the regular, we'll have to make due with this on-trend terminology.
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This composer is a specialty of this brilliant group, made up of young vocalists and instrumentalists on recorders, violins and various stringed bass instruments.
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And, as a kind of love letter, he is planning to gather fellow prominent singers and instrumentalists to celebrate the city's rich musical history.
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Mr. Gopalnath went the other way: He listened to jazz instrumentalists for their technique and inspiration, but bent the instrument to more traditional Carnatic ends.
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While in New York City, she met the multi-instrumentalists Joe Valle and Marty Sulkow, and they bonded over Cat Power and '90s R&B.
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Even when an orchestra and a chorus perform together, in a piece like Beethoven's Ninth, the instrumentalists are often the only ones on the clock.
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This quirky and touching work for six instrumentalists ended on what might have been the first "selfie cadenza" for a cellphone-mugging clarinetist (Campbell MacDonald).
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More recently, in 2014, the Shanghai Symphony began partnering with the New York Philharmonic to prepare instrumentalists in China for the demands of orchestral life.
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She celebrated Black feminism In Beyoncé's world, women are dancers, section leaders, instrumentalists, headliners, bosses, and moguls and all representations were reflected in last night's performance.
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As female instrumentalists have increasingly claimed space in jazz's male-centric spotlight, DIVA has served as a proving ground for some of the music's rising voices.
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"Basses Loaded," for four tappers and four basses (two electric, two standing), had choreography for all, with the instrumentalists circling or closing in on the dancers.
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And on Saturday, there is a performance of "Cobra," one of Mr. Zorn's game pieces, played here by instrumentalists including Zeena Parkins, Annie Gosfield and more.
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By their mid-20s, talented pianists — or violinists, or instrumentalists of any kind — are typically not just poised for a career but already up and running.
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Though he also performed with leading instrumentalists like the violinist Henryk Szeryng and the cellist Pierre Fournier, Mr. Baldwin said he liked working with singers best.
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But then these exquisitely skilled instrumentalists simply let it all hang out in a hoedown jam that had even ultrarefined listeners clapping and hooting along. Priceless.
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Its arrangements are succinct and refined, and its sound is both spare, since there are only three instrumentalists, and lavish, since they all sing various parts.
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Notable instrumentalists this year include the flutist Adam Walker, a principal at the London Symphony, and the oboist James Austin Smith, of the International Contemporary Ensemble.
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Syrian instrumentalists who have been trained in the Western classical tradition have one obvious escape route—they can pick up orchestral jobs anywhere in the Western world.
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Somewhere in the vicinity of 2012, onetime high school sweethearts Whitney Flynn and Jesse Sendejas, both vocalists and multi-instrumentalists, called off a five-year-long engagement.
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But Mr. Dessner, perhaps treading cautiously as a white composer in a potential racial minefield, keeps the music — performed by 10 vocalists and 10 instrumentalists — resolutely lukewarm.
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He told Bernstein that the five brass instrumentalists "should begin playing together because we sound alike, although we had never met," Mr. Pilafian told The Post-Dispatch.
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On Thursday he will premiere a big-band iteration of the ensemble, featuring the vocalist Sofía Rei and the alto saxophonist Román Filiú, plus 16 other instrumentalists.
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Balancing cool forbearance and sauntering grace, the 303-piece ensemble Rivers of Sound represent an exceptional gathering of instrumentalists from musical traditions across Asia and the Americas.
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Four were trained instrumentalists: Shaw was a violinist, the soprano Martha Cluver was a violist, the bass Cameron Beauchamp played trombone, and the tenor Eric Dudley studied piano.
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The next year he joined Abdullah Ibrahim (then known as Dollar Brand) and four other upstart instrumentalists in the Jazz Epistles, South Africa's first bebop band of note.
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Jennifer Higdon, Daron Hagen and Troy Peters all contribute works in tribute; the clarinetist Thomas Piercy, the violinist Eiko Kano and the pianist Chen Yihan are the instrumentalists.
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The minimalist set design by Andrew Lieberman matched the stripped-down quality of the music (the only instrumentalists were four cellists, one in each corner of the stage).
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It also became a jazz standard, recorded by numerous instrumentalists, among them Chet Atkins, Tito Puente and Mr. Thielemans himself, who went on to record it several more times.
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The company borrows its name from a musical technique used by vocalists and instrumentalists to enrich the expression of a tone by rapid and slight variations of the pitch.
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Mr. Abrams explored those possibilities with the Experimental Band, which he organized in Chicago in 21977 to workshop new compositions and arrangements by a coterie of like-minded instrumentalists.
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In this film, the group tours in support of that and similar work with a large retinue of singers and instrumentalists, culminating in a gig at the Hollywood Bowl.
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The melding of Havana street tradition and religious practice with conservatory training now seems to be commonplace among the youngish Cuban instrumentalists making waves on the international jazz scene.
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It was this personal commitment — shared by the eloquent instrumentalists — that brought drama into a performance of music that, however sensitively constructed, can sometimes feel glazed and merely gallant.
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Walshe was joined by seven instrumentalists from the International Contemporary Ensemble) came together in aggressive chants of texts drawn from the internet ("I'm in ur website loadin my pics").
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Mr. Murray made the album over the course of a few years, working with some guest singers and rappers and instrumentalists, but recording most of it on his own.
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They included a scintillating appearance by the Wula Drum and Dance Ensemble, an American company of 17 drummers, dancers and instrumentalists led by M'bemba Bangoura, with roots in Guinea.
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The new sextet Spaza includes two members of Shabaka and the Ancestors (the British saxophonist's collaboration with Mzansi musicians), plus other young vocalists and instrumentalists based in Johannesburg or Soweto.
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This abstract 65-minute "opera" for just one soprano, who mostly whispers sentence fragments, and four instrumentalists, who also whisper cryptic things while creating myriad sounds, could not be more intimate.
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That recorder breakdown doubles as a reminder that, for all their silliness, McKenzie and Clement have always been talented multi-instrumentalists with a keen ear for genre- and era-specific sounds.
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In his interview with The New Yorker, he recalled a concert he gave at 22 with fellow singers and instrumentalists in a bread factory in central Siberia in below-freezing weather.
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Since the early 1980s this pianist and composer has led New Yor-Uba, a large ensemble that unites jazz instrumentalists of various persuasions with some of New York's finest Afro-Cuban musicians.
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Spending a year with some of the most talented actors, singers, dancers, and instrumentalists I've ever met in The Great Comet of 1812 was extraordinarily inspiring and really filled my creative tank.
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The collective comprises 14 instrumentalists and vocalists and is working to ensure that predatory and sexist behavior is seen as aberrant, not as part of the cost of doing business in jazz.
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The list of players warrants dropped jaws—instrumentalists like J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins, and Parliament-Funkadelic's Bernie Worrell, as well as the aforementioned Grohl, Smear, and Vedder.
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The instrumentalists added a sinfonia from Handel's oratorio "Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" ("The Triumph of Time and Truth") to start and the Chaconne from his ballet prologue "Terpsichore" to close.
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The instrumentalists — Mr. Rothenberg, as well as the cellist Hank Roberts, the electric guitarist Charlie Rauh, and Lucie Vitkova on accordion and other instruments — joined in almost bashfully, in muted fits and flutters.
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This work — by Joshua Frankel, Judd Greenstein, Will Rawls and Tracy K. Smith — will involve performances by singers and instrumentalists spread throughout the terminal against a backdrop of projected images by Mr. Frankel.
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I want one day to write a list of all the singers and instrumentalists that I adore, because people would be so shocked to hear that one of my favorite singers is Carmen McRae.
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The group is rounded out with German multi-instrumentalists Georg Börner and Erik Heimansberg, as well as touring American musician Asia Kindred Moore, who also plays in the dark folk outfit Will O' The Wisp.
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Neither the Protestants nor Catholics won that war between the faiths: The instrumentalists did, the Machiavellians, the Westerners who wanted political and economic life set free from the meddling of troublesome priests and turbulent prophets.
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Tenet's instrumentalists broke up the program with substantial works by Nicolò Corradini, Giovanni Gabrieli and Giovanni Battista Fontana, allowing the two superb violinists, Aisslinn Nosky and Beth Wenstrom, to do some duetting of their own.
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Pacific Northwest danced the ballet in its 1976 version, with instrumentalists in the pit rather than onstage, no square-dance caller and, unforgettably, the startling start-stop-start male solo added then to music by Corelli.
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The composer and saxophonist Andrew Bernstein—both as a member of the dizzying Baltimore instrumentalists Horse Lords, and on his own—has long made music that's gleefully formless (or at least, form-agnostic) in this way.
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I have to find my own voice in a world where there are many great instrumentalists who can play the pieces of the past, but maybe can't find a way to excite and engage the public.
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Mr. Siddi's style arises from the Spanish roots of flamenco combined with influences from the American Southwest, evident in both his choreography and the music, which will be offered live by the troupe's singers and instrumentalists.
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But while young instrumentalists arrive at conservatory more or less ready to go, there is nothing harder to assess in classical music than singers in their 20s, a decade when most voices are still in development.
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A cornetist and composer, Morris is known for his system of "conduction," which involves directing an ensemble of improvisers with a set of gestural cues, the conductor and instrumentalists creating a composition together in real time.
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It feels super collaborative compared to my other band, Choir Boy, because although there are more instrumentalists on the album and in the live band, I'm sort of a control freak with song writing and arrangements.
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Both are ridiculously dextrous multi-instrumentalists (Brooks calls Killalea something of a "studio freak"), but in recent years, you may have caught them as the guitarist and bassist (respectively) providing the sauce for Albert Hammond Jr.'s band.
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Last fall's tremendous experimental opera Hopscotch—an immersive event that used 24 vehicles to transport three-person audiences to makeshift stages that included the LA river and an Airstream trailer—featured opera singers performing alongside actors and instrumentalists.
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The chamber opera that made their name, the punchy, harrowing "Dog Days" (2012), featured nine instrumentalists, six singers and an actor: "JFK" drafts nine principals, two choruses, an orchestra of 52 and six cheerleaders from Texas Christian University.
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It's not rare for recordings of improvised music to give a sense of the physical space between instrumentalists, but with Mr. Sorey's trio, that air seems to be in a state of charged collapse, packed with magnetic density.
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By his own description, he was once "a full-body conductor, to an egregious extent"; when he led a performance of "The Orphic Moment" in 2016, his arms swung as he breathed heavily and vocalized with the instrumentalists.
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In the video above, American conductor James Gaffigan explains the ins and outs of leading an orchestra and breaks down how he communicates to different instrumentalists, from the violinist and bass drum players to the French horn player.
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Along with an orchestra made up of instrumentalists from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia, he played three songs during the Signing of the Register near the end of the wedding ceremony.
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On Wednesday he'll present his In Order to Survive Extended Breathe Ensemble, featuring the same three saxophonists, along with the pianist Dave Burrell, the trombonist Steve Swell, and the multi-instrumentalists Lee Rozie (known as Mixashawn) and Daniel Carter.
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The instrumentalists become her eight attentive novices, sitting for long stretches doing nothing, or just breathing in anticipation (the sounds of, say, a flutist playing a short tone then audibly inhaling), or sometimes muttering some jittery, quiet mini-phrase.
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The album was conceived on a laptop in the often tumultuous eastern realms of the country and later aided by instrumentalists at the forefront of heavy music like Greg Fox (of Zs, Liturgy, and more), Thor Harris (Swans), and Shahzad Ismaily.
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Though a soft barrier has always existed between improvising instrumentalists and vocalists, Winter Jazzfest has served for years as a reminder that some of the boldest new work has to do with singing, storytelling and manipulations of the human voice.
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Meanwhile fusions of Western jazz and Middle Eastern folk music have united leading instrumentalists such as Michel Godard, a French tuba-player, and Djivan Gasparyan, a master of the duduk oboe whose mournful sound can be heard all round the eastern Mediterranean.
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Composed of the multi-instrumentalists Natalie Chami, Doug Kaplan, and Maxwell Allison, Good Willsmith have spent the last few years churning out abstract compositions for guitar, electronics, and voice, relying on their compositional chemistry to turn formless melodies into something resembling structure.
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This time around, as the "traditional" audience listened to vocalists and members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Disney Hall, Ms. Weaver's interlocutors and some other instrumentalists were stashed at three locations across the city, where additional crowds could attend, free of charge.
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But in a broader sense the term classical music has been adopted as a way to describe the continuing heritage of music mostly written to be performed in concert halls and opera houses by orchestras, singers, choruses, chamber ensembles and solo instrumentalists.
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The "Poppea" performance, with Rinaldo Alessandrini leading his little band of period instrumentalists and an excellent cast of singers led by Miah Persson and Sara Mingardo, was a fitting conclusion to a festival that must surely be counted a success in musical terms.
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After A Love Supreme and until his death, Coltrane experimented in atonality and with different personnel in his band, adding a second drummer and other wind instrumentalists such as saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, who would go on to play extensively with Alice after Coltrane's death.
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Ragana's effortless command of seemingly disparate genres—the two vocalists and multi-instrumentalists skip from black metal and doom to shoegaze, sludge, screamo, and riot grrrl—speaks both to the power of their DIY anarcha-feminist message, and the cathartic value of their songs.
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Arts | Westchester As an 18-year-old student at the Curtis Institute of Music, Jonathan Biss had little professional experience when he took part in the rising-star residency for instrumentalists at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah in 1998.
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Mr. Paley, who also performed as a solo act and collaborated with others, distinguished himself with the Ramblers with humorous antics and virtuosic musicianship alongside the other founding members, the singers and multi-instrumentalists Mike Seeger (a half brother of Pete Seeger) and John Cohen.
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The most prominent ensemble of the kind is the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which was set up 20 years ago by Daniel Barenboim, an Argentine-Israeli conductor and pianist, and the late Arab academic Edward Said, bringing together instrumentalists from across the Arab-Israeli divide.
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They're amplified, and there are supertitles, but the voices nevertheless bounce wildly off all the stone and glass, and lose some of their impact, even given uniformly crisp enunciation; the instrumentalists, far-off under the Branch Bank facade, sounded less snappy than they should.
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Two of them were multi-instrumentalists: Justin Robinson, from the mill town of Gastonia, North Carolina, had studied the violin since childhood, and Dom Flemons, at the time still living in his native Arizona, had already begun turning himself into an old-fashioned songster.
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A radical thinker who became an esteemed figure in the world of classical music, Boulez broke into the limelight in 1955 when 'Le Marteau Sans Maitre' (The hammer without a master) was first performed, setting the poetry of fellow Frenchman Rene Char for contralto and six instrumentalists.
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The selections have included composers, conductors, singers, instrumentalists, an ensemble (Eighth Blackbird), a stage director (Peter Sellars), and even a choreographer (Mark Morris) — and several who have sprawled over more than one of those categories, such as Pierre Boulez, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vijay Iyer and Barbara Hannigan.
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As a composer, he wrote hundreds of pieces, including jazz works and jazz-inflected concert music, for instrumentalists and ensembles including the violinists Josef Gingold and Ruggiero Ricci, the cellist Janos Starker, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Audubon String Quartet, the New York Philharmonic and the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
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The duo—which is comprised of multi-instrumentalists Ágnes Tóth and Mihály Szabó—has been floating around since 2003, initially drawing inspiration from neofolk godheads like Dead Can Dance and Tenhi, but working to craft a unique sound all their own that's equal parts world music and neofolk.
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Ursusson was joined onstage by German multi-instrumentalists Georg Börner and Erik Heimansberg, as well as American musician Asia Kindred Moore, who also plays in the dark folk outfit Will O' The Wisp, who together wove an impeccably rich tapestry, and made us all stand frozen in place.
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From 2010-16, Ms. Soper wrote "Ipsa Dixit" — just released on a lucid recording from New World Records — for herself and a trio of instrumentalists (the flutist Erin Lesser, the percussionist Ian Antonio and the violinist Josh Modney) from Wet Ink Ensemble, of which she was a founder.
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With an ensemble of six vocalists and 18 instrumentalists, the 80-minute "Place" obliquely yet obsessively mulls gentrification; displacement; the powers and limitations of white male privilege; and the intersection of shifts in communities and families, including the birth of Mr. Hearne's children and the breakup of his marriage.
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Then on Wednesday, when the singers were joined by the full orchestra, it became clear that the location of the soloists' elevated platform, which was positioned above and behind the instrumentalists, would make it hard for the Peri and others to be heard over the strings and winds.
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Another exceptional performance of the festival was "Dry Mountain" (2015), an improvisational piece based on Rowe's old work interpreted by instrumentalists Johnny Chang, Mike Majkowski, Bryan Eubanks, Xavier Lopez, Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Bardutt, Emilio Gordoa, as well as visual artists, Bożenna Biskupska, Radek Szlaga, Alicja Bielawska, and Daniel Koniusz.
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TALEA ENSEMBLE At the Italian Academy at Columbia University, this fearless ensemble takes on "Face," a new evening-length work by the savage composer Pierluigi Billone that closely intertwines a vocalist (here, the soprano Anna Clare Hauf) with instrumentalists in a sound world that can be rough, even violent. Nov.
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For a free pop-up concert on the Columbia campus, this violinist, who is a member of the Mivos Quartet and Ensemble Signal as well as a noted soloist, is joined by an array of other instrumentalists, for music by Ned Rothenberg, Taylor Brook, Victor Lowrie, Missy Mazzoli and Reiko Füting.
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The overwhelmed children try to pull themselves together, and Jamie Bernstein finds a way—many ways, actually—of making a life out of music without being a musician, narrating concert works, creating an equivalent of the Young People's Concerts (the Bernstein Beat, devoted to his music), making a film about the training of young American instrumentalists.
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By not imposing or promoting a single aesthetic but instead encouraging unconventional originality, the association, which presented concerts and conferences, became an incubator for the genre-defying group the Art Ensemble of Chicago as well as the multi-instrumentalists and composers Anthony Braxton and Henry Threadgill, along with others who channeled the high-energy "free" jazz of the early 22015s into more organized works.
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Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images And from the very beginning, he counted women not just as backing singers, but also as instrumentalists within his bands, with many of whom enjoying solo careers of their own: Wendy and Lisa, Sheila E. Aside from a Christine McVie here, a Maureen Tucker there, it's stunning how few bands broke out of that boys club rut until Prince came along.
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Just as the world felt like it was tumbling into a dark new era, multi-instrumentalists Clay Parton, Canaan Dove Amber and Jason Albertini exited stage left, leaving behind two albums, a handful of EPs and a muted legacy of life-changingly Good Music that has rewarded bummed-out indieheads with a penchant for Soulseek and RateYourMusic genre lists in the intervening 17 years.
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Playlist: "I Would Die 4 U" / "Pop Life" / "When Doves Cry" / "Delirious" / "Purple Rain" / "U Got the Look" / "1999" / "Little Red Corvette" / "Kiss" / "Raspberry Beret"Apple Music | Spotify There are multi-instrumentalists, and then there is Prince, a man who played 28 instruments on his debut album in addition to writing all of the music and performing all of the vocals (he was 19 at the time, by the way).
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Thile rose to prominence with indie-bluegrass group Nickel Creek and has made a name for himself both with his own alt-leaning bluegrass group The Punch Brothers and as a highly-sought after collaborator for other instrumentalists like double bassist Edgar Meyer and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. But talking with Thile, it's clear that the first thing he brings to the table as the show's new host is a deep and abiding love of APHC.
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I don't wish to offend classical aesthetes by rattling off a list of reasons why I don't often listen to their music, but this album could have suffered from any number of problems — excess asceticism, instrumentalists showing off, an overly prissy ideal of beauty, an overly florid sense of romanticism, especially the European kind whereby the musicians play in an open square while listeners dine outside at a nearby bistro watching a crimson sunset, feeling the wind blow through their hair.
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