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EVEN IF YOU'VE got some solid cred - even if you're Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips - some tasks can be a bit intimidating. Like being asked to write music for [ANDY WARHOL]'s famous "screen tests."
"We wanted to work with this collection because, first, they're exhaustive - we have a lot to work with," says Ben Harrison, the Warhol's associate curator for performance, who came up with the idea with film curator Geralyn Huxley. "And second, four minutes sounds like pop-song length to me." Harrison was asked to be an associate curator for this year's Festival of Firsts, working with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and he jumped at the chance to incorporate the Dean & Britta performance.Beyond choosing which people to represent in the project, in some instances, Wareham and Phillips had to choose between different films of the same person. "Lou Reed was a difficult choice to make," Phillips notes. "There are two films; he looks like a baby in one, and in the other he's got shades on and looks like a total badass. It was really hard to choose between them."See the full content of this document
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Dean & Britta
DEAN & BRITTA perform 13 MOST BEAUTIFUL ... SONGS FOR ANDY WARHOL'S SCREEN TESTS
8 p.m. Fri., Oct. 24 and Sat., Oct. 25. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $25. 412-456-6666 or www.pgharts.orgEVEN IF YOU'VE got som...See the full content of this document
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