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Bryce Dessner to Perform Award-Nominated Score Live in Hollywood

12/22/2025

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Composer Bryce Dessner will perform "Train Dreams" live-to-picture on January 8, 2024, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
The film, directed by Clint Bentley, streams on Netflix and has earned two Golden Globe nominations and five Critics Choice Award nominations.
Joel Edgerton stars as Robert Grainier, a logger in the Pacific Northwest, while Dessner's score, blending American folk and orchestral music, is nominated for an SCL Award.
Bentley highlighted Dessner's score as crucial to the film's emotional impact, and the performance will be conducted by the Wordless Music Orchestra to attract younger audiences to classical music.

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Composer Bryce Dessner will perform "Train Dreams" live-to-picture on January 8, 2024, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
The film, directed by Clint Bentley, streams on Netflix and has earned two Golden Globe nominations and five Critics Choice Award nominations.
Joel Edgerton stars as Robert Grainier, a logger in the Pacific Northwest, while Dessner's score, blending American folk and orchestral music, is nominated for an SCL Award.
Bentley highlighted Dessner's score as crucial to the film's emotional impact, and the performance will be conducted by the Wordless Music Orchestra to attract younger audiences to classical music.