December 17, 2008
The West Coast premiere of Lee Johnson’s Dead Symphony: An Orchestral Tribute to the Music of the Grateful Dead will be presented on January 25 and 27 by Music Director Barry Jekowsky and the award-winning California Symphony.
As part of the California Symphony’s own Grateful Dead tribute, an exhibition of images of the band taken by noted photographer Herb Greene will be on display at the Bedford Gallery in the Lesher Center for the Arts from January 15 – 31. The featured guests at each concert will be composer Lee Johnson, who will be visiting from Atlanta, and official Grateful Dead biographer Dennis McNally. Johnson will sign CDs of the Dead Symphony, released by Omi Records in 2007, and McNally will sign out-of-print hard copies of his New York Times bestselling book, A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead. Both will also participate in a panel discussion to be moderated by Jekowsky following each performance….
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