Bryce David Dessner (born April 23, 1976) is an American composer and guitarist based in Paris and a member of the rock band the National. Dessner's twin brother, Aaron, is also a member of the group. Together, they write the music in collaboration with lead singer and lyricist Matt Berninger.
In addition to his work with the National, Dessner is known for his work as an independent composer. His orchestral, chamber, and vocal compositions have been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, ensemble intercontemporain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (for the New York Philharmonic), Kronos Quartet, Carnegie Hall, BAM Next Wave Festival, Barbican Centre, Edinburgh International Festival, Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival (Cork, Ireland), Sydney Festival, eighth blackbird, Sō Percussion, New York City Ballet, and many others. His work, Murder Ballades, was featured on eighth Blackbird's album Filament, an album he also produced and performed on, which won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance.
Dessner has collaborated with artists such as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Paul Simon, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Jonny Greenwood, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Terry Riley, Justin Peck, Ragnar Kjartansson, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Nick Cave, and Taylor Swift, among others. Dessner is the founder of the MusicNOW Festival, co-founder of Copenhagen's HAVEN festival, and co-curator of the festival Sounds from a Safe Harbour. He is a founding member of the improvisatory instrumental group Clogs and co-founder of Brassland Records. In 2018, Dessner was named one of eight creative and artistic partners for the San Francisco Symphony as part of incoming Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen's new leadership model for the orchestra in 2020. He has a bachelor's degree and master's degree in music from Yale University.
Dessner, along with his twin brother Aaron, was named the 243rd greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2023.
Dessner was an Artist-In-Residence for the 2024-2025 season at the National Concert Hall in Dublin.[1]
In 2026, Dessner earned his first Academy Award nomination for his work on the film Train Dreams.
Læs mere...23. april 1976 var en fredag under stjernetegnet for ♉. Det var 113 dag på året. Præsident for USA var Gerald R. Ford.
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Date: 24 April 1976
Ad falls off sharply in Crested Butte Chronicle whose articles led to Sen probe and subsequent resignation of Pres Ford's former campaign mgr Howard H Callaway; newspaper publisher Myles Arber comments (S)
Date: 24 April 1976
Many former White House press secs say they were never told to lie to press but some say they relayed information that turned out to be erroneous, symposium with Washington reporters at L B Johnson Library, Austin, Tex; some say their sources of information in exec branch were sometimes less than candid with them; Pres Ford's press sec Ron Nessen and former press secs Tom Johnson and Ronald Ziegler comment (S)
Date: 24 April 1976
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times
according to memo from late FBI dir J Edgar Hoover to his top assocs, Hoover ordered FBI in '69 to use its confidential informants within news orgns to determine source of NY Times article reptg secret Amer bombing raids on Cambodia; document has never been made public but was provided by FBI to attys representing Morton H Halperin, former Natl Security Council aide whose phone was tapped by FBI from '69 to '71; Halperin is suing Fed Govt for damages in that case, and in deposition taken in that lawsuit recently Cartha D DeLoach referred at length to Hoover memo; DeLoach said memo contained names of 'newspaper people friendly to FBI' who were to be asked if they could shed any light on how information was obtained by then Times military correspondent William Beecher (M)
Date: 24 April 1976
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
reactions of various editors to disclosures about FBI practices noted; NY Times managing editor A M Rosenthal says full information must be released to avoid smearing all journalists; editors commenting include Clayton Kirkpatrick (Chicago Tribune), Evarts A Graham Jr (St Louis Post-Dispatch) and Eugene C Patterson (St Petersburg Times) (M)
Date: 23 April 1976
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times
According to evidence obtained by Sen Select Com on Intelligence, FBI has maintained network of confidential informers inside major news orgns; sources familiar with panel's rept on domestic intelligence operations say that none of news reporters or other confidential sources will be named in 350-page document; 1 source says that while, in many instances, journalists were simply recipients of exclusive information provided by FBI agents for use in news articles, in other instances it appeared that reporters also provided bur with unpublished information that they had picked up in course of their jobs; 1 of journalists whose names were provided to Sen com by FBI says in phone int that he had been called by individual purporting to represent Church panel with request for int about his alleged FBI affiliation; says that upon checking he discovered that caller was not member of Sen com staff but had been acting as 'intermediary' for com and that he, journalist, had reptd incident to FBI (M)
Date: 23 April 1976
By ALVIN SHUSTER Special to The New York Times
Alvin Special
Ital newspapers, citing US Sen documents, assert on Apr 22 that former prime min was involved in scandal over bribes by Lockheed Aricraft Corp; leaks on alleged role appear to be violation of secrecy agreement between Washington and Rome (S)
Date: 23 April 1976
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
US Justice Dept spokesman says that dept will have no comment on Ital press repts (S)
Date: 24 April 1976
By MARTIN WALDRON Special to The New York Times
Martin Special
While NJ Gov B Byrne was saying that close public scrutiny is good for state govt in speech to NJ chapter of Public Relations Soc of Amer, repts of audits made of daycare center operations in NJ are being withheld from newsmen; whether audit repts will ever be released publicly is not known (S)