{"title":"Bryce Dessner \u0026 The Kronos Quartet","description":"\u003cp\u003eBryce Dessner plays guitar in The National, but Aheym (2013) was his recorded debut as a composer and made clear how substantial that other side of his work already was. Kronos Quartet's David Harrington commissioned the title piece for a 2009 Celebrate Brooklyn! concert in Prospect Park and asked Dessner to write from his family history; his Jewish immigrant grandparents had settled near the park. Aheym means \"homeward\" in Yiddish, and NPR heard \"a dense and kinetic work\" broken by \"lyrical and luminous melodic lines.\" Three more pieces follow: \"Little Blue Something,\" inspired by Czech musicians Irena and Vojtěch Havel; \"Tenebre,\" which builds toward layered vocals by Sufjan Stevens over multiple recorded quartets; and \"Tour Eiffel,\" a setting of a Vicente Huidobro poem with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Start with the title track, ten minutes of strings driven with the force and repetition of a rock band.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/antirecords.store\/collections\/bryce-dessner-the-kronos-quartet.oembed","provider":"ANTI- Records US","version":"1.0","type":"link"}