Dessa - three from "Making of 'Sound the Bells' " (2019)

Опубликовано 8 апреля 2021, 2:00

Dessa is our Minnesota Music Month artist of the day for Wednesday, April 8.

In March of 2019, Dessa and the Grammy-winning Minnesota Orchestra joined forces to record "Sound the Bells." They sold out two nights at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, wired it with microphones, and put on an epic show full of rap bangers, infectious pop songs, tragic ballads, costume changes, and a little Bach. But how do hip-hop tracks get transformed into compositions that can be played by more than 75 classical musicians? (Spoiler: it involves arranger extraordinaire Andy Thompson and more than a thousand pages of scores.) Is it true that conductor Sarah Hicks uses a baton molded specially for her hand? (IT IS.)

The Making of Sound the Bells pulls back the curtain to explore the workings of this ambitious project through stories, images, and live performance from a string quartet composed of Minnesota Orchestra players.

Watch these live performances featuring a string quartet, Dessa, and four vocalists.

SONGS PERFORMED
0:00 "Good Grief"
5:02 "Fighting Fish"
8:10 "Dixon's Girl"

PERSONNEL
Dessa
Lazerbeak: Doomtree producer/album executive producer
Andy Thompson: Arranger/album executive producer
Sarah Hicks: Live at Orchestra Hall Conductor
Sarah Grimes: violin
Ben Odhner: violin
Sam Bergman: viola
Pitnarry Shin: cello
Aby Wolf: Vocal Director/singer
Ashley Dubose: singer
Matthew Santos: singer
Cameron Kinghorn: singer

CREDITS
Audio: Veronica Rodriguez, Cameron Wiley
Video: Mary Mathis, Nate Ryan
Event Production: Andrea Swensson, Ali Lozoff, Natalie Roman, Casey Collins

FIND MORE:
2011 Fitzgerald Theater concert: thecurrent.org/feature/2011/11...
2013 Fitzgerald Theater concert: thecurrent.org/feature/2013/07...
2018 MPR Forum session:
thecurrent.org/feature/2018/02...

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