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Jonny Greenwood's Phantom Thread score is played live in Brooklyn
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Screenshot: BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)Phantom Thread is screened at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn on Saturday night with Jonny Greenwood's whole score played live, the first of four screenings Wordless Music has put on. The first night sold out, so BAM added a Sunday matinee. Los Angeles gets two at the Ace Hotel on 2 March, one of them sold out, according to Wordless Music.
The Wordless Music Orchestra plays with principals from the London Contemporary Orchestra, who recorded the score for the Nonesuch soundtrack album. Robert Ames conducts, Galya Bisengalieva leads the orchestra and plays the solo violin, and Katherine Tinker is at the piano. Selections by Brahms, Schubert, Fauré and Debussy fill out the programme.
The screenings were announced on 24 January, the day after the score was nominated for the Oscar for best original score. It is the third time Paul Thomas Anderson has worked with Wordless Music on a live score, after There Will Be Blood and Punch-Drunk Love.
Phantom Thread with live score
| Date | Venue | City |
|---|---|---|
| 24 February 2018, 8pm | Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM | Brooklyn |
| 25 February 2018, 3.30pm | Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM | Brooklyn |
| 2 March 2018, 8pm | The Theatre at Ace Hotel | Los Angeles |
| 2 March 2018, midnight | The Theatre at Ace Hotel | Los Angeles |