David Byrne

...the Klezmer Conservatory Band. He served as conductor and music director for David Byrne and Robert Wilson's The Knee Plays, and has collaborated with the Palestinian American violinist Simon Shaheen. London has composed numerous works...

In this article: Frank London, North Sea Jazz Festival, New England Conservatory, Yvonne Rainer, John Sayles, Simon Shaheen, and Klezmer Conservatory Band

...Olympics. The film, whose numerous interview subjects range from composer David Byrne to the late Susan Sontag, provides a largely admiring portrait of an avant-garde director known for his design-driven visual style. It offers some...

In this article: Robert Wilson, Suicide, Autism, and Philip Glass

...one of the inaugural performances being a modern dance program, Tango Argentino, in the Brown Theater and Robert Wilson and David Byrne 's The Knee Plays , presented by the Society for the Performing Arts in the Cullen Theater. A significant...

In this article: The Knee Plays, Robert Wilson, and Wortham Theater Center

...this week's music section. An excerpt: Besides fronting one of the greatest rock bands ever, Talking Heads (their first four albums are classics), Byrne has led a sporadically brilliant solo career. He's composed music for choreographer...

In this article: The Forest, New York City, Young Adam, Twyla Tharp, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Robert Wilson, Stop Making Sense, and True Stories

...was released in November 2007 under the title "The Knee Plays" The Knee Plays is the title of David Byrne's remastered and expanded edition of his Music for "The Knee Plays". It's the first time the album is released on CD, and it includes...

In this article: The Knee Plays, DVD, The Civil WarS, and Robert Wilson

...in a sense, signature Wilson theater. She worked with other international artists in her later career, including Julie Taymor, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Heiner Muller, Hans Peter Kuhn and David Byrne. "Suzushi was one of the bravest people in...

In this article: Robert Wilson, New York, Alzheimer's disease, Madame Butterfly, Merce Cunningham, Anna Halprin, and Trisha Brown

...because of financial and logistical obstacles. However, Byrne adapted parts of his score with Wilson for use in a different piece that had a limited run in the U.S. and Europe in 1985. Nonesuch will release The Knee Plays on October 30,...

In this article: The Knee Plays, Robert Wilson, This Must Be the Place, Once in a Lifetime, DVD, The Civil WarS, and Prince Paul

...non-narratives can, at least. Nonesuch's current release of Knee Plays-- for the first time on CD-- adds eight previously unreleased tracks and a dense recollection of the pair's mind-meld by Byrne himself. In many ways, a collaboration...

In this article: Robert Wilson, The Knee Plays, Stop Making Sense, The CIVIL warS, Civil War, Einstein on the Beach, Twyla Tharp, and Philip Glass

The film, whose numerous interview subjects include the composer David Byrne and the late Susan Sontag, provides a largely admiring portrait of an avant-garde director known principally for his design-driven visual style. It offers...

In this article: Robert Wilson, Harvey Lichtenstein, Suicide, Autism, The Civil WarS, and Philip Glass