Jonny Greenwood joins the orchestra for There Will Be Blood live

Jonny Greenwood will take a seat in the orchestra and play the ondes Martenot, the early electronic keyboard his part was written for, when his score for There Will Be Blood is performed live to screenings of the film in London and New York.

Greenwood has played music from the score in concert before, but never along with the picture. It was his first score for Paul Thomas Anderson, in 2007, and it was nominated for a Grammy after the Academy had ruled it ineligible for the Oscar. The two have since made The Master, and Greenwood is now working on a third Anderson film, Inherent Vice.

London comes first, with two nights at the Roundhouse in August in its Summer Sessions series. The London Contemporary Orchestra, more than 50 players, plays under Hugh Brunt, and Nonesuch bills the nights as the world premiere. Today Nonesuch added the US premiere: two nights at the United Palace Theatre in New York in September, where the Wordless Music Orchestra plays under Ryan McAdams.

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