malfunctioning elevator<\/a> in a pithily Andersonian incident, made a brief appearance onstage with Murray in his regal white suit. But the focus was the music itself on Friday, and the ragtag roster of artists that fully conjured it.<\/p>\nTo start, huge credit due to the show\u2019s musical director Justin Meldal-Johnsen and the session-killer band of Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Jason Falkner, Joey Waronker and Gus Seyffert. The sheer amount of music to arrange and assemble for this was vast and demanding, and they got to all of it from 1996\u2019s \u201cBottle Rocket\u201d to the present.<\/p>\n
The Phil took a more modest role, performing poignant, rigorous slivers of scores from Anderson\u2019s go-to composers Alexandre Desplat (\u201cCanto at Gabelmeister\u2019s Peak\u201d from \u2018The Grand Budapest Hotel\u201d and \u201cMr. Fox in The Fields,\u201d from \u201cThe Fantastic Mr. Fox\u201d) or his frequent collaborator, Devo\u2019s Mark Mothersbaugh (the propulsive \u201cPing Island\u201d from \u201cThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.\u201d)<\/p>\n
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet took a lively solo crack at \u201cMoses Rosenthaler\u201d off \u201cThe French Dispatch;\u201d Rajib Karmakar and Aakash Pujara played aching sitar and flute drones from \u201cThe Darjeeling Limited,\u201d and taiko drummer Kaoru Watanabe nearly blew out the Bowl\u2019s speakers on \u201cShinto Shrine\u201d from \u201cIsle of Dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The surprises came from the rock acts brought in to re-imagine the most evocative needle drops from Anderson\u2019s ouvre. <\/p>\n
Jackson Browne, in an unbelievable career first, finally got around to performing \u201cFairest of the Seasons\u201d and \u201cThese Days,\u201d tracks he wrote as a teenager eventually covered by German art-rock chanteuse Nico, mournfully used on \u201cThe Royal Tenenbaums.\u201d <\/p>\n
Beck took a pass at the late Elliott Smith\u2019s ghostly \u201cNeedle in The Hay,\u201d used to harrowing effect in the same film, and later Love\u2019s \u201cAlone Again, Or\u201d. Karen Elson beautifully covered Fran\u00e7oise Hardy\u2019s \u201cLes Temps De L\u2019amour\u201d from \u201cMoonrise Kingdom\u201d while the Yeah Yeah Yeahs\u2019 Karen O simmered through the Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cPlay With Fire\u201d off \u201cDarjeeling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet the delighted gang\u2019s-all-here element that ties Anderson\u2019s regular cast together was embodied by an endearingly shaggy run through \u201cZorro Is Back\u201d with Jenny Lewis and Rog\u00ea. Towards the end of the night, just before a closer with the Faces\u2019 \u201cOoh La La,\u201d Murray brought out a one-of-a-kind instrument for a big flourish. A nine-dollar desk bell, seemingly purchased at Staples hours before showtime, requested specifically by Anderson.<\/p>\n
\u201cFront of house, make sure Bill\u2019s bell is ripping,\u201d Beck implored the sound techs at the Bowl. Indeed, as the band, including Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Lewis and Schwartzman, performed the Bobby Fuller Four\u2019s single \u201cLet Her Dance,\u201d Murray indeed whacked the hell out of that thing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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