The Music of the Beach Boys Featuring Pet Sounds LIVE!
About This Event
City Winery NYC hosts The Music of the Beach Boys Featuring Pet Sounds LIVE, a performance centered on the group's repertoire and the album Pet Sounds. Formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California, the Beach Boys are known for their vocal harmonies and Brian Wilson's studio innovations that drew on classical and jazz elements; this program highlights those compositional and production techniques in a live setting.
About Pet Sounds
Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966, by Capitol Records. It was produced, arranged, and primarily composed by Brian Wilson with guest lyricist Tony Asher. Recorded largely between January and April 1966, it furthered the orchestral sound introduced in The Beach Boys Today! (1965). Seeking to expand Phil Spector's Wall of Sound technique and surpass the Beatles' Rubber Soul (1965), Wilson's orchestrations blended pop, jazz, exotica, classical, and avant-garde elements, combining rock instrumentation with layered vocal harmonies, found sounds, and instruments not normally associated with rock. It was their first album in which studio musicians, such as the Wrecking Crew, largely replaced the band on their instruments, and the first in which any rock group abandoned the small-ensemble format for an entire album. Its unprecedented total production cost exceeded $70,000.
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's founding members consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine.