{"id":488025,"date":"2019-07-15T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859152"},"modified":"2019-07-15T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:32:30","slug":"yeah-yeah-yeahs-nick-zinner-recruits-indie-rock-friends-for-massive-orchestral-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/yeah-yeah-yeahs-nick-zinner-recruits-indie-rock-friends-for-massive-orchestral-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah Yeah Yeahs\u2019 Nick Zinner Recruits Indie Rock Friends for Massive Orchestral Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2011, Nick Zinner, guitarist of Yeah Yeah Yeahs<\/a>, wrote 41 Strings<\/em>, a four-part symphony to mark Earth Day. He\u2019s since performed the piece around the world, including London\u2019s Meltdown Festival and Australia\u2019s Sydney Opera House with musicians like the xx\u2019s Romy Madley Croft and Savages\u2019 Gemma Thompson. The orchestral piece \u2013 which is built to reflect the change of fall, winter, spring and summer \u2013 has also made it to TV: the \u201cspring\u201d portion of the piece is currently the theme music for HBO\u2019s Vice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Zinner has now announced the biggest performance of 41 Strings<\/em> yet: On July 27th<\/sup>, he will perform at New York\u2019s Rockefeller Plaza with a 51-person orchestra. He\u2019s enlisted some major talent for the occasion, including Paul Banks of Interpol, Lenny Kaye from the Patti Smith Group, Nancy Whang from LCD Soundsystem and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so excited to bring this piece back to New York City where it was written and first performed in 2011,\u201d said Zinner in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s always a massive undertaking and true joy to perform. \u201c[It] was originally written to be played by a 45-person ensemble, and I\u2019ve gathered up some of my favorite New York-based musicians from several generations to guest on this one-time performance to make it as special and epic as it can be.  It\u2019s a real honor to be able to do this in such an iconic space as Rockefeller Center, free and open for all New Yorkers and everyone to enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a list of musicians participating. More information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guitar<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7         Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
\u00b7         Paul Banks (Interpol) **
\u00b7         Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith band) **
\u00b7         Angel Deradoorian (previously of Dirty Projectors) **
\u00b7         Andrew Wyatt (Miike Snow, producer\/songwriter with Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Liam Gallagher, Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson) **
\u00b7         Sarah Lipstate (Noveller) **
\u00b7         Ava Mendoza **
\u00b7         Aku Orraca-Tetteh (Dragons of Zynth) **<\/p>\n

Drums
<\/strong>\u00b7         Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
\u00b7         Ryan Sawyer (Gang Gang Dance)
\u00b7         Hisham Akira Bharoocha (Lightning Bolt, Black Dice)<\/p>\n

Bass<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7         Andy Macleod
\u00b7         Jaleel Bunton (TV on the Radio) **<\/p>\n

Synth<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7         Ben Vida
\u00b7         Nancy Whang (LCD Soundsystem) **<\/p>\n

Strings<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7         Gillian Rivers, arranger
\u00b7         35 classical string ensemble<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2011, Nick Zinner, guitarist of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, wrote 41 Strings, a four-part symphony to mark Earth Day. He\u2019s since performed the piece around the world, including London\u2019s Meltdown Festival and Australia\u2019s Sydney Opera House with musicians like the xx\u2019s Romy Madley Croft and Savages\u2019 Gemma Thompson. The orchestral piece \u2013 which is built […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 15:44:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}