Pat Metheny's Orchestrion Tour Comes to Kingsbury Hall 5/4

Following a wildly enthusiastic reception to shows across Europe, 17-time Grammy Award-winner Pat Metheny brings his Orchestrion Tour to North American performance halls, including a stop in Salt Lake City. Pat Metheny's Orchestrion Tour will play at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus on Tuesday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $59.50 - $29.50 and are available by calling 801-581-7100 or visiting www.kingtix.com.

Metheny, whom The New York Times calls "easily one of the most enterprising jazz musicians of his generation," has performed shows to sold-out audiences in some of Europe's best-known halls, including the Barbican in London, l'Olympia in Paris and the Konzerthaus in Vienna. London's Telegraph calls the show "a triumph," while All About Jazz's review of a Holland performance proclaims it "a galaxy of greatness." The Orchestrion album, which came out in Jaunary on Nonesuch Records, has received critical praise from The New York Times, Associated Press, Village Voice, and Billboard, among many other publications.

Orchestrion brings a musical idea from the late 19th and early 20th centuries-a large mechanical multi-instrument device that utilizes actual orchestral instruments of various types, called an "orchestrion"-to the technologies of today. Metheny's concept includes a large ensemble of acoustic instruments-including several pianos, drum kit, marimbas, "guitar-bots," dozens of percussion instruments, and even cabinets of carefully tuned bottles. Through Metheny's guitar and compositional mind, five new original pieces showcase the instruments as they are struck, plucked, and otherwise played via the technology of solenoid switches and pneumatics. Metheny worked for months with a brilliant team of inventors to develop and assemble the "New Orchestrion" for this project.

Hear Orchestrion: http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/orchestrion

See the Orchestrion in action: http://www.nonesuch.com/media/videos/pat-metheny-introduces-orchestrion

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