{"id":1443,"date":"2015-04-29T16:57:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2015-04-29T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:58:24","slug":"1443","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/2015\/04\/29\/1443\/","title":{"rendered":"A Friendship Between Andy Warhol and Christopher O’riley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andy Warhol<\/a><\/strong>
\nChristopher O’Riley and Two Unidentified men- Now in St.Olaf Art Collection\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

gelatin silver print on paper
\n8 in. x 10 in. (20.32 cm x 25.4 cm)
\n2008.272
\nGift of \u00a9 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.<\/p>\n

This Photo that was showed in the collection is a photo taken by Andy Warhol, probably in early 1980s. It captured the moment when the young pianist Christopher O\u2019riley played music for Andy Warhol and three other audiences. It would be risky to guess what O\u2019riley was playing, but from where I stand, probably jazz. As what O\u2019riley said when he thought of the good memory with Andy Warhol:<\/p>\n

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Interview:\u00a0http:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/christopher-o-riley-velvet-underground\/#_<\/p>\n

They were good friends. As what O\u2019riley remembered, the man who introduced he to Andy Warhol was Stuart Pivar. Pivar went to a lot of auctions together with Warhol and they co-founded the New York Academy of Art. One of O\u2019riley\u2019s friends took him to Pivar\u2019s house- and that was how he met Andy Warhol. O\u2019riley often played music for Andy Warhol, Ford models, art collectors, and experts\u00a0in the apartment. Taking these into account, through careful observation viewers might find out that all human figures in the photo can possibly be upper-middle class elite men, sitting in the delicate room with the art nouveau style lamp and Bouguereau-like academic painting on the wall.<\/p>\n

Even more interesting, Christopher O\u2019riley started to host the National Public Radio program From the To<\/em>p in a way that Andy Warhol suggested- do absolute O\u2019riley\u2019s music. In the show, He started to do groundbreaking transcriptions of the rock band Radiohead with his own interpretations of classical music and new repertoires, and this made him famous for his piano arrangement of rock music.<\/p>\n

As what he said in the interview:<\/p>\n

\u201cDealing with music as a contemporary form and not something in a museum definitely led to my confidence to do my own things.\u201d<\/p>\n