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smear reveals an ear for timbre, a gift for musical elaboration and a more sophisticated palette than anyone might have guessed.  Greenwood is clearly a composer in the making.”
Financial Times (Andrew Clark)

"(Popcorn Superhet Receiver) For strings only, it owns up to an influence from early Penderecki.  But the substance of the music is something else altogether.
A slow blur of impossibly rich chords starts to let through faint solo instruments, now tentative and now stronger.  It is at its most captivating when big chords fade and wisps of inner detail are left floating.  Unlike the rest of the programme, it paraded the primacy of feeling over guile, a stance that doesn't usually get people far in British music.  Let’s hope he has the strength of mind to protect this original voice."

The Independent (Robert Maycock)




Biography

Jonny Greenwood is best known as the lead guitarist of the band Radiohead.

To date Greenwood has penned three “classical” works: smear (two ondes martenots and ensemble); Popcorn Superhet Receiver (string orchestra) and Doghouse (string trio and large orchestra).

Popcorn Superhet Receiver was written as part of his fruitful residency with the BBC Concert Orchestra.  Sections of the score were later worked into his soundtrack for the Oscar-winning Paul Thomas Anderson film There Will Be Blood (2007) – the soundtrack itself controversially declared ineligible for an Oscar as “the majority of the music was not composed specifically for the film.”  However, Greenwood went on to scoop Best Film Score award at the 2007 Evening Standard British Film Awards, and Critics’ Choice Award for Best Composer by the Broadcast Film Critics Association of the USA. 

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 News & Reviews

Doghouse: Jonny Greenwood’s new orchestral work

Jonny Greenwood misses out on BAFTA

Jonny Greenwood: Popcorn Superhet Receiver (US premiere)

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Radiohead official site - one of many Radiohead sites

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