On June 28, 2024 the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles will play host to ‘Radiohead X Brahms,’ an innovative symphonic synthesis of Radiohead’s universally acclaimed 1998 album OK Computer and Johannes Brahms’ canonical First Symphony. The performance offers a reimagined experience of each work by seeing it through the lens of the other, exploring the explosive tension and deep pathos they have in common. The wholly unique experience features a full symphony orchestra and three vocalists, coming together under the baton of the visionary creator and conductor Steve Hackman.
Hackman is renowned for his boundary-pushing orchestral fusions that explore the deep connections between classical and contemporary music in the wake of similar presentations of work with orchestras all over the world, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, and beyond. This performance is part of the SYMPHONYFUSE series, designed to attract a diversely youthful audience to the world of classical music by presenting it in contemporary venues and illuminating the common elements between traditional classical and well-known popular repertoire.
Following the premiere in Los Angeles, the series will travel to major cities including Chicago, New York, and London, with exciting future productions planned such as ‘Drake X Tchaikovsky’ and ‘The Resurrection Mixtape [Notorious BIG X 2Pac X Mahler].’
Tickets for ‘Radiohead X Brahms’ are available through Goldenvoice, offering an experience that bridges the gap between traditional and modern musical genres. For more information and ticket purchases, please visit: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/090060A2C16E5853
ABOUT STEVE HACKMAN
A multi-hyphenate music powerhouse and creative visionary, Steve Hackman is a daring voice intent on redefining art music in the 21st century. Trained at the elite level classically but equally adept in popular styles, his breadth of musical fluency and technique is uncanny—he is at once a composer, conductor, producer, DJ, arranger, songwriter, singer, and pianist. He uses these polymathic abilities to create original music of incisive modernism yet rooted in elevated classicism.
His groundbreaking orchestral fusions, such as Radiohead X Brahms and The Resurrection Mixtape (Notorious BIG X Tupac Shakur X Mahler), are revolutionizing the symphonic landscape and introducing it to its future audience; he has conducted these pieces to sellout houses all over the world, including with the orchestras of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, and the Boston Pops.
Hackman has teamed up with some of the biggest pop superstars of today to add a signature virtuosic and classical dimension to their work, including Steve Lacy, Kanye West, Doja Cat and Andrew Bird. He is a frequent and close collaborator of the visionary choreographer Jacob Jonas. He was trained at the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds degrees in Orchestral Conducting and Piano Performance. He recently taught his first course at the Juilliard School entitled ‘Fusion, Re-imagination and Revelation.’
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