On October 19, Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion will visit the Walker’s McGuire Theater to perform from their collaborative projects Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part (2021) and Rectangles and Circumstance (2024). Shaw, a Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winner, is best known for her radiantly exploratory music that straddles the worlds of classical and pop music. She joins forces with the Sō Percussion quartet for an evening of transcendent rhythm and vocals. Finding inspiration in wide-ranging sources, from Emily Dickinson to ABBA, their songs journey between tightly crafted orchestrations and inspired spontaneity, creating a sonic world that feels fresh and ecstatic.
Copresented with Schubert Club Mix.
Program support provided by Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.
Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion: Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part
Saturday, October 19, 7:30 pm
Tickets start at $25, fees included
McGuire Theater
ABOUT CAROLINE SHAW
Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She often works in collaboration with others as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. Shaw is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, an honorary doctorate from Yale University, four Grammys, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. She has written and produced for iconic artists and ensembles across the musical spectrum, including Rosalía, Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Tiler Peck, Nas, the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, and others. Current touring projects include shows with Sō Percussion, Ringdown, Attacca Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, Graveyards & Gardens, Gabriel Kahane, and Kamus Quartet.
ABOUT SŌ PERCUSSION
For 20 years and counting, Sō Percussion has redefined chamber music for the 21st century through an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (New Yorker). They are celebrated by audiences and presenters for live performances that bring to life the vibrant percussion repertoire; for an extravagant array of collaborations in classical music, pop, indie rock, contemporary dance, and theater; and for their work in education and community, creating opportunities and platforms for music and artists that explore the immense possibility of art in our time.
Recent highlights have included performances at the Elbphilharmonie, Big Ears 2022, where they performed Amid the Noise, premiered a new work by Angélica Negrón with the Kronos Quartet, and performed Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part with Caroline Shaw. Their Nonesuch recording, Narrow Sea, with Caroline Shaw, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish, won the 2022 Grammy for Best Composition.
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ACCESSIBILITY
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ABOUT SCHUBERT CLUB
Since 1893, Schubert Club has invited the world’s great recital soloists and ensembles to the Twin Cities and has promoted the superb musical talents of our community through performances, education, and museum programs. One of the first arts organizations in the country, Schubert Club remains today one of the nation’s most vibrant, relevant, and respected music organizations.
Acknowledgments
The Walker Art Center’s Performing Arts programs are made possible by generous support from the Doris Duke Foundation through the Doris Duke Performing Arts Fund, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Producers Council
Performing Arts programs and commissions at the Walker are generously supported by members of the Producers’ Council; Christina Evans and Weston Hoard; Nor Hall and Roger Hale; King’s Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury; Sarah Lutman and Rob Rudolph; Emily Maltz; Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation; Therese Sexe and David Hage; and Mike and Elizabeth Sweeney.
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