Ghost Train Orchestra
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Ghost Train Orchestra is a New York City-based large ensemble led by Brian Carpenter. The band formed in 2006 when an historic theater in Boston commissioned Carpenter as musical director for its 90th
Ghost Train Orchestra with choir, 2018
Moondog
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Louis Thomas Hardin, known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, hi
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…featured more works by Scott, Foresythe, and Wilder. In 2023, the band collaborated with Kronos Quartet on the album Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog. In April 2024, they performed the album's repertoire with Kronos Quartet live at New York's Town Hall, with guest vocals by David Byrne, Karen Mantler…
Moondog in 1948
Moondog tomb at the Central Cemetery in Münster, designed by Ernst Fuchs after the death mask
The trimba, Moondog percussion instrument