LISTENING MIX // Sarah Kirkland Snider / Shara Worden / yMusic

Shara Worden with Sarah Kirkland Snider and yMusic, Photo: sarahkirklandsnider.com — Shara Worden with Sarah Kirkland Snider. Photo: sarahkirklandsnider.com

LISTENING MIX provides a musical preview for the musicians visiting the Walker. Combining their music with sounds from a variety of contextual sources, LISTENING MIX can be experienced before or after a performance.

Musician Shara Worden (of band My Brightest Diamond) is the lead vocalist for composer Sarah Kirkland Snider’s song cycle Penelope. String ensemble yMusic will join Worden to perform the Walker co-commission and Midwest debut of Penelope (along with new My Brightest Diamond compositions) at St. Paul’s SPCO Center on February 26 and 27.

Worden, Kirkland Snider, and yMusic blend formal classical and pop influences into dynamic and rich, yet melodically approachable material. The following mix includes other musical groups which do just this, creating works that live on the fringe between “art” song and “pop” song. To bridge this gap, many of the works integrate strong narrative vocal melodies with modern string accompaniments.

LISTENING MIX // Sarah Kirkland Snider / Shara Worden / yMusic by Listening Mix on Mixcloud

Clogs / The Owl of Love (ft. Shara Worden) / 0:0

My Brightest Diamond / She Does Not Brave the War / 4:12

Brigitte Fontaine / Eros / 8:19

Clogs / Cocodrillo (feat. Shara Worden) / 11:01

Meredith Monk / Hocket / 12:53

Sarah Kirkland Snider / Nausicaa (feat. Shara Worden) 17:08

James Blake / Retrograde / 20:04

Antony & The Johnsons / Twilight / 23:53

yMusic / Skin & Bones (Shara Worden) / 27:36

Final Fantasy / took you two years to win my heart / 31:31

yMusic / A Whistle, A Tune, A Macaroon / 35:28

Sibylle Baier / I Lost Something In the Hills / 38:32

France Gall / Celui que j’aime / 41:59

My Brightest Diamond / If I Were Queen / 44:31

Joanna Newson / No Provenance / 47:07

Ólöf Arnalds / Surrender (feat. Björk) 53:34

Matteah Baim / The Whistler / 58:51

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