Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion. ©2020 Shervin Lainez

First-Ever Live Radio Broadcast from The Reser

Join us Friday, November 11, 2022, at 7:30 PM PT for the first-ever live broadcast from the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts on All Classical Portland! Co-presented by Third Angle New Music and The Reser, this special broadcast will feature music by Pulitzer Prize and GRAMMY® award-winning composer Caroline Shaw and leading percussion quartet Sō Percussion, off their joint album Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part.

Tune in at 89.9 FM in Portland or worldwide via the live player on our website.

The broadcast will be produced by All Classical Portland’s Andrea Murray, who will take listeners behind the scenes in the first half of the program with exclusive interviews with Caroline Shaw and members of Sō Percussion and Third Angle. Then, listeners will join All Classical Portland hosts Brandi Parisi and Warren Black live from The Reser for performances by Shaw and Sō Percussion. Production assistance will also be provided by All Classical Portland’s Sarah Zwinklis.

Celebrated for her compositions for vocal and string ensembles and being the youngest person to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for her album Partita for 8 Voices (2013), Caroline Shaw is a driving force in classical and contemporary music. On Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part, Shaw joined forces with New York-based ensemble Sō Percussion to produce an album featuring innovative multi-genre original productions, sensational interpretations of modern classics, and an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam,” (New Yorker). Sō Percussion has redefined the scope and role of the modern percussion ensemble, placing it at the leading edge of 21st-century music. The ensemble regularly presents adventurous new works with a unique focus on collaboration, fueled by a belief in the unifying power of music. That power is obvious in the music of their latest collaboration project with Shaw, beautifully blurring the lines between genres, classic and modern music, and Shaw’s roles as co-composer and vocalist.

Visit thereser.org to learn more about the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts and to purchase tickets for the in-person concert on November 11, 2022.

All Classical Portland’s live broadcast will begin at 7:30 PM PT at 89.9 FM in Portland, or worldwide at allclassical.org. This special program will be available to stream on demand for two weeks in All Classical Portland’s Audio Archive.

ABOUT

The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts (The Reser) is a state-of-the-art, world-class multi-disciplinary performing and visual arts center located in the heart of Beaverton’s Central District. Located mere steps from public light rail transportation, The Reser campus includes a 550-seat Mainstage Theater; an art gallery; rehearsal, workshop, and meeting spaces; a lobby and outdoor plaza; and an adjacent parking structure.

The mission of the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts is to foster joy, imagination, connection, and understanding in our diverse community by presenting artistic, cultural, educational, and entertainment opportunities for all. For information on events please visit thereser.org.

Third Angle New Music’s mission is to perform and record the masterworks of the twenty-first century while commissioning new works from regional and nationally recognized composers. Third Angle’s roguish programming crafts experiences that are mind-altering by design, including concerts created to work in harmony or dissonance with their environment, wildly divergent repertoire, and a blending of the arts that redefines the genre. At a Third Angle performance, you never know quite what will happen next. Learn more at thirdangle.org.

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 is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammy awards, an honorary doctorate from Yale, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. She has worked with a range of artists including Rosalía, Renée Fleming, Yo Yo Ma, and Kanye West, and she has contributed music to films and tv series including Fleishman is in Trouble, Bombshell, Yellowjackets, Maid, Dark, and Beyonce’s Homecoming. Learn more at carolineshaw.com.

Sō Percussion is a leading percussion quartet and nonprofit organization that fosters, creates, and presents adventurous new work with a unique focus on collaboration. Fueled by a belief in the unifying power of music, Sō Percussion brings the joy, curiosity, and inherent connectivity of percussion in all its forms to an ever broader audience.

Sō Percussion is committed to Openness, Collaboration, Experimentation, and Invitation. Learn more at sopercussion.com.

HOW TO LISTEN

Tune in Friday, November 11, 2022, at 7:30 PM PT at 89.9 FM in Portland or worldwide via the live player on our website.