John Schneider: American Maverick Guitar American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend

Grammy Award-winning guitarist John Schneider explores another side of the Greenwich Village music scene, looking at works by the intrepid Harry Partch and Lou Harrison and others and their engagement in world music and the "American Primitive”. Schneider's work is "of a caliber that kept this listener in a state of continuous astonishment" -- Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times.

American Maverick Guitar: Nowadays they’re known as West Coast composers, but Harry Partch and Lou Harrison spent their essential years right here in New York City. Schneider will perform Partch’s long lost-song cycle December 1942, written in the Village, as well as one of his most famous pieces Barstow, that he called his "Hobo Concerto". Lou Harrison began his exploration of Just Intonation while working with Virgil Thompson at the Herald-Examiner, living on Bleecker Street and hanging out with John Cage and many other seminal musical personalities. We’ll hear Harrison’s Just Guitars music and other work for re-fretted guitars that exist thanks to these two fearless visionaries.

The concert is part of The Village Trip’s American Primitive and Inventors of Genius Weekend.