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CAROLINE SHAW — ANDREW NORMAN — NADIA SIROTA

“When I wrote Partita for 8 Voices, it was like if you had the little box of eight crayons for a long time, and then you suddenly have the box with 64, with the little pencil sharpener in the back, you kind of go all out.

“I like writing for string quartet because it’s not a wildly new palette, but there’s something constantly exciting about it. I don’t know why we make music, make art, or write… but [there’s] something about it—it’s like you just have to keep carving.” — Caroline ShawPARIS LA, 2017*

Join composer-musicians Caroline Shaw and Andrew Norman, the music ensemble Wild Up, and host (and viola player) Nadia Sirota for an “enhanced concert” featuring live performances of Shaw’s and Norman’s work, and free-wheeling conversations about their process.

This celebration of music creation is presented by CAP UCLA in downtown Los Angeles.

NADIA SIROTA—LIVING MUSIC LIVE!

with WILD UP

featuring CAROLINE SHAW

and ANDREW NORMAN

Saturday, January 12, at 8 pm.

Theatre at Ace Hotel

929 South Broadway, Los Angeles.

*“The Lilt and the Friction: Caroline Shaw in conversation with Anh Do and Eli Diner,” PARIS LA 15 (Spring 2017): 61–69.

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Nadia Sirota, a Live Podcast Event with Wild Up featuring Andrew Norman and Caroline Shaw. Photograph by Shervin Lainez.

Andrew Norman. Photograph by Craig T. Matthew.

Caroline Shaw (left), Norman, and Sirota at the Theatre at Ace Hotel, January 12, 2019. Image courtesy CAP UCLA.

Shaw. Photograph by Kait Moreno.

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY

In a program unique to Los Angeles, the Martha Graham Dance Company presents MARTHA GRAHAM AND AMERICAN MUSIC on Saturday night at the CSUN Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge.

As a prelude to the performance, the troupe’s dancers will be joined by CSUN alumni and selected local dancers in the opening number PANORAMA. The main program begins with Graham’s tribute to the American Southwest, DARK MEADOW SUITE, followed by her “love ballet” DIVERSION OF ANGELS. Graham’s dark Medea-dance CAVE OF THE HEART is next, and the evening concludes with the last piece Graham choreographed, Scott Joplin‘s MAPLE LEAF RAG .

Martha Graham not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century, she commissioned some of the great orchestral and chamber music of her time, working with Samuel Barber, Norman Dello Joio, Carlos Chávez, and Norman Lloyd—composers represented in MARTHA GRAHAM AND AMERICAN MUSIC, and performed live by the wild Up music collective/orchestra, conducted by Christopher Rountree.

 

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY—MARTHA GRAHAM AND AMERICAN MUSIC

VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, Los Angeles.

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Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins at Bennington College, 1938 Photograph by Barbara Morgan (co-founder of Aperture). Image credit: Haggerty Museum

Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins at Bennington College, 1938.
Photographs by Barbara Morgan (co-founder of Aperture).
Image credit: Haggerty Museum