
Dreamlike, melancholy, and hopeful for redemption, Antony and the Johnsons—winners of Great Britain’s 2005 Mercury Prize—join the Oregon Symphony for a one-of-a-kind concert conducted by rising star composer Nico Muhly. For this special evening, Antony and the Johnsons will unite with a full orchestra to produce a wall of exotic and extraordinary sound. Antony’s voice—a fusion of Nina Simone and Elvis—will journey through landscapes both natural and psychological via the band’s favorites and perhaps a few soulful surprises.
Antony and the Johnsons, former artists in residence at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater (NY), have performed at the Bloomsbury Theater in London, the Warhol Museum, the Wexner Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Antony has also worked extensively with Lou Reed and Björk and was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial with a Charles Atlas collaboration entitled TURNING. Antony and the Johnson's new album, The Crying Light, will be released by Secretly Canadian this fall.
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