Event time:
Thursday, December 7, 2017 - 7:00pm
Event description:
Join Professor Daniel Harrison and students in the Beach Boys seminar to a showing of Beautiful Dreamer on December 7 at 7 pm, in Loria 351 (on York near Chapel). The director, David Leaf will be there, and there will be a Q&A afterwards. Leaf is a long-time intimate of Brian Wilson, and he was on the team that helped Wilson complete and then perform live in 2004 the legendary “lost album” Smile, abandoned in 1967. His film chronicles the original project and its rich context, the debilitating depressions that Wilson suffered after its miscarriage, his gradual re-engagement with the album and its fantastical music, and the London premiere of the live show. It’s a story made for Hollywood, and Leaf filmed it expertly.