Ghost Quartet: Haunting Intersection of Performance, Music, and Whiskey

Show #108, Hour 2 | Guest: Dave Malloy is a composer / writer / performer / sound designer who describes his musical Ghost Quartet as “a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey.” Malloy’s written the music for eleven musicals, including award winning Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on War and Peace, Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise,” Preludes, a musical fantasia about Rachmaninoff and hypnosis, and Don’t Stop Me, a dance-a-thon to the death musical for teenagers, among several others. | Show Summary: A synthesis of performance, music, and spooky things: Ghost Quartet.