Brokeback Mountain 2

The Brokeback Mountain score is initially what introduced me to Gustavo Santaolalla’s music in 2005 — for which he won the first of his back-to-back Academy Awards. The minimalist approach and solitary delivery of a lone acoustic guitar was unlike anything we had heard in film music before.

Within the score there are 3 beautiful passages of music entitled Brokeback Mountain 1, 2, & 3. Brokeback Mountain 1 is my favorite piece of music on earth and it informs all of my guitar playing and musicality. Having performed that already, I wanted to do justice to the…