When/Where: Friday, August 15, 2008 at 7:00 PM, at New York City’s Lincoln Center’s outdoor venue, Damrosch Park Bandshell. This will be a free show featuring Rhys Chatham and a slew of other badass, talented guitarists playing A Crimson Grail (2008) for 200 Electric Guitars.
I’ve seen Rhys Chatham play with about 15 guitarists in Carrol Gardens Brooklyn a few years ago with basically members from heavy on talent, Bear in Heaven and members of Sonic Youth. It was truly mind blowing so I’m imagining that this performance with 200 guitars/bass will knock your socks off.
From Lincoln Center’s website - composer Rhys Chatham and section leaders John King, Ned Sublette, David Daniell, and Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family) lead an oversized orchestra of 200 volunteer guitarists and electric bassists in the world premiere of A Crimson Grail for 200 Electric Guitars (Outdoor Version) performed not on the Bandshell stage but along the sides of the audience at Damrosch Park, to heighten the work’s polyphonic effect. The work, originally composed for Paris’ famed Sacré-Coeur, has been extensively revised to suit the dynamics of the Park’s outdoor acoustic.
Links: Lincoln Center’s blurb…
Lincoln Center’s Bandshell Venue
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August 12th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Total bonus for skate heads, Duane Pitre as in, I used to shred for Alien Workshop Duane Pitre is one of the guitarists.
Amazing
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 pm
can i get the guitar for free