Antony and the Johnsons

In concert with the Oregon Symphony

This special performance is only included in the Patron Pass. All other passhholders must purchase a ticket.

Dreamlike, melancholy, and hopeful for redemption, Antony and the Johnsons—winners of Great Britain’s 2005 Mercury Prize—join the Oregon Symphony for a one-of-a-kind concert. For this special evening, Antony and the Johnsons will unite with a full orchestra to produce a wall of exotic and extraordinary sound. Antony’s voice—a fusion of Nina Simone and Elvis—will journey through landscapes both natural and psychological via the band’s favorites and perhaps a few soulful surprises.

Antony and the Johnsons, former artists in residence at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater (NY), have performed at the Bloomsbury Theater in London, the Warhol Museum, the Wexner Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Antony has also worked extensively with Lou Reed and Björk and was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial with a Charles Atlas collaboration entitled TURNING. Antony and the Johnson's new album, The Crying Light, will be released by Secretly Canadian this fall.

Since its founding more than a century ago, the Oregon Symphony has been recognized for its internationally acclaimed music directors, skilled performers, diverse programs and outstanding community services in education and regional touring. The Oregon Symphony now ranks among the largest orchestras in the nation.

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Antony is a ghost-white giant with a voice of singular majesty—an instrument of delicacy and rapture in which Nina Simone, Morrissey and Joni Mitchell seem to inhabit the same breath. Rolling Stone