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"Little Blue Something" performed by the Kronos Quartet from Aheym composed by Bryce Dessner

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Ensemble Resonanz — Bryce Dessner: "Tenebre" | Rolf's Music Blog

Media Review: Bryce Dessner, Tenebre with the Ensemble Resonanz, Hamburg — Aheym (2009), Tenebre (2010), Skrik Trio (2017), Lachrymae (2012)

Media Review (★★★★): Bryce Dessner, Album "Tenebre" — Ensemble Resonanz, Hamburg. Contents: Aheym (2009), Tenebre (2010), Skrik Trio (2017), Lachrymae (2012)

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Bryce Dessner - "Rolling Stones" magazine interview, Oct.1st, 2013

Gavin Edwards : Sufjan Stevens contributes vocals on "Tenebre"-- how'd that happen?

Bryce Dessner : There's eight voices of Sufjan on there. I played in his band in 2005, and more recently, we worked on a song cycle called Planetarium. He's played on the last three National records. He's one of my closest friends and a neighbor. That piece, "Tenebre," is based on Renaissance vocal music. The piece was commissioned for Kronos's lighting designer, so I was thinking about light and music, and Tenebre is a Holy Week service, the day before Good Friday, also called Maundy Thursday. It's all about light: they extinguish candles during the Mass, symbolizing the life and death of Christ. Because the piece is based on vocal music, I wanted it to have voices at the end. But I wanted to do it in a nonclassical way, and Sufjan has this light airiness in his voice that I thought would be beautiful. And he's game for this kind of thing.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-nationals-bryce-dessner-steps-out-with-the-kronos-quartet-20131028#ixzz46G5LQ4pk

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Kronos Quartet with Bryce Dessner - Aheym

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Kronos Quartet performing Bryce Dessner's Aheym

Animation by Matthew Ritchie

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I listen to almost every genre of music under the sun, but it's something about Kronos Quartet that will always, and completely trap me. Aheym (Yiddish for "homeward") was written for Kronos by Bryce Dessner; a member of the Brooklyn rock band The National, he studied composition at Yale. The music thrives on nervous energy, pulsating with strumming and spiccato (bouncing the bow on strings) while building to a tremendous fever.

[the-ode-less-travelled]

I have Aheym and I won't have any money during the next 15 days and I ugh.

So worth it. So damn worth it.