The Village Trip: John Schneider – 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”.

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