plays Steve Reich and David LangPresented with
“The range of colors and voices that So- Percussion coaxes from its menagerie is astonishing and entrancing.” – Billboard Magazine
Jan 24 & 25, 8pmHeritage HallRunning Time
90mSo Percussion is
Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam sliwinski, Jason Treuting featuring guest percussionist
Vern GriffithsNew York’s “experimental powerhouse” (The Village Voice) makes their Vancouver debut performing music by the two most recent Pulitzer Prize-winning composers, Steve Reich and David Lang. For two nights only, So Percussion offers a bold and unforgettable programme that is at turns raucous and touching, barbarous and heartfelt.
Written specifically for So Percussion,David Lang's groundbreaking work the so-called laws of nature is a 30-minute matrix of unfolding rhythmic patterns that are simultaneously meditative and climactic. Performed on an assortment of instruments, most of which the performers are required to build themselves using materials from giant pipes and tea cups to flower pots, the work is hailed by the Boston Globe as “a tour de force of minutely scripted anarchy and glorious noise, rendered by So Percussion with amazing force and precision.” The concert also features Steve Reich’s beautifully complex patterns and hard driving rhythms with performances of the legendary composer’s Music for Pieces of Wood and Four Organs.
Presented with Music on Main, the “highly popular series that’s as musically adventurous as it is socially gregarious” (Georgia Straight) that brought you Steve Reich’s Drumming for three sold-out performances in the 2009 PuSh Festival.
www.musiconmain.ca
Tickets $15/$35
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RSVP to So Percussion on the PuSh Festival facebook page
Related postings on PuShing It: The PuSh Festival Blog
December 18, 2009 - PuSh 2010 Curatorial Statement: So Percussion plays Steve Reich and David Lang
January 22, 2010 - Composer David Lang on the so-called laws of nature
January 24, 2010 - So Percussion plays Heritage Hall
Links
Visit So Percussion's website complete with FREE DOWNLOADS
Listen to them on myspace or watch them on youtube .
Watch a video about the so-called laws of nature with So Percussion on vicfirth.com
Watch a performance of the so-called laws of nature with So Percussion on vicfirth.com
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