John Paul Jones (musician) Foo Fighters on the Grammy Awards conducting the orchestral part to the song "The Pretender". On 7 June 2008, Jones and Jimmy Page appeared with the Foo Fighters to close out the band's concert at Wembley Stadium. Jones performed with Sonic Youth and Takehisa Kosugi, providing the stage music for Merce Cunningham's "Nearly 90", which ran 16–19 April 2009 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In February and March 2011 he appeared in the onstage band in Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera "Anna Nicole", about the "Playboy" model Anna Nicole Smith, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London. In August
Grant Gershon of "Two Songs to Poems of Ann Jäderlund" by Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Master Chorale, along with other U.S. premieres of works by composers James MacMillan, Tarik O'Regan, Sofia Gubaidulina and Mark-Anthony Turnage. Beyond his work with the Master Chorale, he has also championed new music. He conducted the world premiere of John Adams opera/theatre piece, "I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky", directed by Peter Sellars. He and pianist Gloria Cheng premiered "Hallelujah Junction", a piano-duo piece written for them by John Adams. In February 2007, he conducted the world premiere of Ricky Ian