{"id":6665,"date":"2013-11-06T13:19:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2013-11-06T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:19:12","slug":"watch-the-short-film-for-kronos-quartet-with-bryce-dessners-tour-eiffel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=6665","title":{"rendered":"Watch the short film for Kronos Quartet With Bryce Dessner’s ‘Tour Eiffel’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kronos<\/p>\n

Kronos Quartet<\/a> and The National’s guitarist Bryce Dessner<\/a> released yesterday a collaborative album entitled Aheym<\/em>, which means \u201chomeward\u201d in Yiddish. Aheym<\/em>, before turning into an album, was the first piece they conceived together, after Kronos founder David Harrington invited Dressner to write a piece for their performance at the Celebrate Brooklyn! festival at Brooklyn\u2019s Prospect Park in 2009. As the press release describes, Aheym<\/em> “was informed by the stories of Dessner\u2019s Jewish immigrant grandparents who settled near the park”.
\nCoinciding with the album release, the magnificent track ‘Tour Eiffel’ is being offered with a visual accompaniment in the shape of Passages<\/em>, a short film by Alex Braverman and Poppy de Villeneuve directed by Dianne Berkun. Featuring the Brooklyn Youth Chorus,\u00a0‘Tour Eiffel’ is based on a poem by early 20th-century Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, who wrote about the Eiffel Tower at the time it had just been built. Watch the short film beneath.<\/p>\n