Who’s Who Punch-Drunk Love

Fulbright scholar and the first-ever recipient of my life making music, because it will always both the Sir Georg Solti Emerging Conductor be above me. There will always be something Award and the Glimmerglass-Aspen Prize for else to learn.’” Opera Conducting. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the extraordinary dancer-actress Laura NORAH JONES first emerged on the world Careless. stage with the February 2002 release of Come Away With Me, her self-described “moody little JON BRION has brought a singular musical record” that introduced a singular new voice voice to Paul Thomas Anderson’s filmsHard and grew into a global phenomenon, sweeping Eight, Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love. He the 2003 Grammy Awards and signaling a par- has scored some of the past decade’s other adigm shift away from the prevailing synthetic unforgettably unorthodox films, such as Michel pop music of the time. Since then, Jones has Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless sold over 40 million albums worldwide and be- Mind, Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New come a nine-time Grammy winner. She has re- York, and David O. Russell’s I Heart Huck- leased a series of critically acclaimed and com- abees. He has also written music for the hit mercially successful solo albums—Feels Like comedies The Break-Up and Step Brothers, Home (2004), Not Too Late (2007), The Fall the gothic animated feature, ParaNorman, (2009), and Little Broken Hearts (2012)—as Judd Apatow’s This is 40, and Pixar’s Blue well as two albums with her country collec- Umbrella short. Brion’s music was most tive The Little Willies. The 2010 compilation recently featured in Paramount Pictures’ crime …Featuring Norah Jones showcased her drama The Gambler starring Mark Wahlberg incredible versatility by collecting her collabo- and Judd Apatow’s hit comedy Trainwreck rations with artists as diverse as Willie Nelson, starring Amy Schumer. Up next for Brion is Outkast, Herbie Hancock, and Foo Fighters. Fox Searchlight Pictures’ Wilson starring Judy Little Broken Hearts, which was produced by Greer, Laura Dern, and Woody Harrelson. Brion Danger Mouse, was a fascinating step in the showed musical promise from his beginnings artistic evolution of one of the music world’s BAM and Wordless Music present in New Jersey, and formed a band out of high most consistently intriguing singer-songwriters. school. He played with artists like Aimee Mann Jones had previously collaborated with Danger and The Wallflowers before becoming a pro- Mouse on his acclaimed 2011 album ROME, a Paul Thomas Anderson’s ducer—and sometimes songwriter—for Fiona valentine to classic Italian film score music that Apple, Rufus Wainwright, and Kanye West also featured Jack White. Jones is currently (among others). “When I was eight or nine,” putting the final touches on her sixth solo recalls a prescient Brion, “I said to myself, ‘It’s album, which is due to be released this fall on Punch-Drunk Love really good that I’m going to spend the rest of Blue Note Records. Mar 19, 2016 at 8pm | BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

Music by Jon Brion Wordless Music Orchestra Ryan McAdams conductor Jon Brion keyboards, percussion, electronics, celesta, piano, modular synths Norah Jones, guest vocalist

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VIOLIN OBOE WORDLESS MUSIC ORCHESTRA is the Angeles debut with composer/conductor Mica Pauline Kim Harris, Michelle Farah house band of New York City’s Wordless Music Levi in the US premiere of Under the Skin; concertmaster Arthur Sato* series, which was founded by non-musician performed the US premiere of Pablo Berger’s Megan Atchley Ronen Givony in 2006 and has since present- Blancanieves; and reprised its collaboration Tom Chiu CLARINET Monica Davis Bill Kalinkos ed concerts in museums, churches, nightclubs, with Benh Zeitlin and Dan Romer for an encore Elizabeth Derham Eileen Mack* and out-of-doors, pairing artists from the performance of Beasts of the Southern Wild at Pala Garcia sound worlds of so-called classical, electronic, the Saenger Theater in New Orleans. In 2016, Mario Gotoh BASSOON and rock music. Comprising New York’s most Wordless Music Orchestra also performs the William Knuth Brad Balliett* omnivorous young musicians, and members world premiere live scores for Terrence Malick’s Laura Lutzke* Jack Chan of groups such as Alarm Will Sound, ACME, The Tree of Life at the National Concert Hall in Jessica McJunkins and Ensemble Signal, the orchestra presented Dublin and for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch- Chris Otto HORN Ben Russell Kate Sheeran* its first concerts in 2008 under conductor Drunk Love in Los Angeles. Andie Springer Jason Sugata Brad Lubman, with the US premiere of Jonny Mary Jo Stilp Greenwood’s Popcorn Superhet Receiver, on RYAN McADAMS made his European debut in ACCORDION a program with music of Gavin Bryars and 2010 with the Maggio Musicale in Florence, VIOLA Aaron Roche John Adams. In 2010, the Wordless Music his Eastern European debut in Croatia with Caleb Burhans* Lucie Vítková* Orchestra performed alongside the Hilliard the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in Kallie Ciechomski Ensemble and Latvian National Choir as part of 2010, and his subscription debut with the Jeanann Dara HARP Isabel Hagen Jane Yoon* Lincoln Center’s inaugural White Light Festival, Israel Philharmonic in 2011. He has returned Caitlin Lynch in world premiere compositions for orchestra to the Israel Philharmonic twice since, most PERCUSSION and voices by Kjartan Sveinsson and Jónsi recently on tour with cellist Alisa Weilerstein CELLO Yuri Yamashita-Morales* Birgisson of Sigur Rós with his partner, Alex and Orff’s Carmina Burana. His appearances Clara Kennedy Wilson Torres* Somers. On September 11, 2011, Wordless in 2015—16 include Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de Rubin Kodheli Matt Smallcomb Music Orchestra performed a memorial concert perles with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Lauren Radnofsky* Joe Wong for the 10th anniversary of the September della RAI and the Maggio Musicale in Florence, Seth Parker Woods SOUND ENGINEER 11 attacks in the Temple of Dendur at the Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Theatre of St. BASS Richie Clarke Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the world Louis, Don Giovanni with New York’s Venture Tomoya Aomori* premiere orchestration of William Basinski’s Opera, Carmen with the Teatro Regio Torino, Eleonore Oppenheim PRODUCER Disintegration Loop 1.1. In 2013, the orches- L’elisir d’amore with Gulfshore Opera, concerts Ronen Givony tra performed a world premiere live score to with Santa Fe Symphony, a collaboration with FLUTE the filmBeasts of the Southern Wild for an Lincoln Center Jazz and the Phoenix Sym- Erin Lesser* *principal outdoor audience of 7,000 at Prospect Park in phony, and concerts with the Wordless Music Jessica Schmitz Brooklyn; with the legendary Kranky ambient Orchestra and Philadelphia’s Orchestra 2001. duo Stars of the Lid at Brooklyn’s Basilica of Recent highlights include appearances with Our Lady of Perpetual Help; and with musical the Vancouver Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, icon John Cale for songs from Cale’s classic Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, album Paris 1919, as part of the 2012 BAM Columbus Symphony, Princeton Symphony, St. New orchestral arrangements for Jon Brion’s original score were made for this performance by Next Wave Festival. In 2014, Wordless Music Paul Chamber Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Cham- Matt Marks and Jay Lin. Orchestra made its Australian debut with Max bre de Genève, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, CityMusic Cleveland, Thank you: Erica Frauman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Norah Jones, Jonathan Karp, Matt Richter at the Sydney Opera House and Mel- Marks, Steve Barnett, Mark Flanagan, Dave Jennings, Richard Kraft, Dan North, Skywalker bourne Recital Centre; performed with Jonny New Jersey Symphony, and Glimmerglass Op- Sound, Carlin Belkowski, Tara McPherson, Tom Mulvaney, and Zan Emerson. Greenwood at the Big Ears festival in Knoxville, era. McAdams served as associate conductor TN, and in two live film score performances of both New York City Opera and New York to Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be City Ballet, assistant conductor of the Aspen Blood; and at London’s Barbican Centre for the Music Festival, music director of the New York European premiere of Beasts of the Southern Youth Symphony, and apprentice conductor to Wild. In 2015, the orchestra made its Los Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival. He is a