Planetarium
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Opened Mar 21, 2013
Closed
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Visit the Planetarium website:
http://www.bam.org/music/2013/planetarium
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
With the US premiere of Planetarium, three of today's most multifaceted music talents--The National's Bryce Dessner (The Long Count, 2009 Next Wave; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, 2012 Winter/Spring Season), composer Nico Muhly, and singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens (The BQE, 2007 Next Wave)-- come together to consider the cosmos. For the first half of the evening, a string quartet performs each artist's classically informed compositions. In the latter half, Stevens' voice anchors a planet-by-planet song cycle that melds the collaborators' distinct creative contributions--"the National's honeyed scree, Muhly's disjointed pomp and Stevens' electronics and modernist folk tendencies" (The Guardian)--into 10 a harmonic whole. The cycle unfolds against the backdrop of a giant orb that morphs to reflect the characteristics of the sphere being celebrated.
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