Chris Thile joined the National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Eric Jacobsen in concert at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, to perform his narrative song cycle ATTENTION!, and more this past April. Also on the program were works by Bach, Beethoven, Dvořàk, and Ellington, and Caroline Shaw. You can watch them perform "Julep," from Punch Brothers' 2015 album, The Phosphorescent Blues; the Allegro from Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor; and "The Rooftop," from ATTENTION!, here.
Chris Thile joined the National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Eric Jacobsen in concert at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, to perform ATTENTION!, his new "narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra," an NSO co-commission, and more this past April. Also on the program were works by Bach, Beethoven, Dvořàk, and Ellington, as well as Caroline Shaw's "And So." You can watch them perform "Julep," from Punch Brothers' 2015 album, The Phosphorescent Blues; the Allegro from Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor; and "The Rooftop," from ATTENTION!, here:
Chris Thile gives four sold-out performances of a brand-new piece, The Manhattan Variations, about finding oneself in a little cocktail bar on the Lower East Side, created by Thile and his wife Claire Coffee, at Little Island in New York City, August 14–16 and 18, with a set at the Skaneateles Festival in upstate New York on August 17. He then heads to California to lead his weeklong Acousticamp in Pacific Grove, August 22–26. In the 2024–25 concert season, he performs ATTENTION! with Colorado Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Details on all of the above can be found at nonesuch.com/on-tour.
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