A co-presentation of Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County
The Festival’s opening concert features Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, joined by musical friends Salastina, members from Pacific Chorale, and a dancer from Laguna Dance Festival. Shaw will showcase her genre-blending works, from lush choral pieces to innovative chamber music. Don’t miss this stunning evening of music and artistry.
Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She works often in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist, which won her the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music and three Grammy Awards. Caroline has written over 100 works in the last decade including for Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, and Dawn Upshaw, and has contributed to films and podcasts such as Beyonce’s Homecoming, Tár, and Dolly Parton’s America, among others.
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Sō Percussion and Caroline Shaw's latest collaboration is Rectangles and Circumstance, the "hypnotically beautiful" (BBC Radio 3) new album from Nonesuch Records. The current tour of the album is augmented by songs from their previous collaborative work Let the Soil Play its Simple Part as well as an interlude from Caroline's cinematic pop duo Ringdown, featuring co-songwriter and partner Danni Lee, plus recent compositions for Sō by members Jason Treuting and Eric Cha-Beach. The evening-length performance is a band-generated theatrical experience, featuring staging and design by director Mark DeChiazza. The musicians gradually place lights and reveal novel instruments as the show builds from a lone spotlight on Shaw singing "I'll Fly Away" to the ecstatic full ensemble performing thrilling up-tempo songs like "Sing On" and "To the Sky," as films by Sō Percussion member Jason Treuting splash across canvases throughout the stage. This production melds DIY design with dazzling original songs, to sensational effect.
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After more than a decade of musical friendship,composer-performers Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane come together for their first large-scale collaboration, a deeply immersive and thought-provoking performance inspired by the literary genius of Jorge Luis Borges.
Hexagons is a new work inspired by the magical realism of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story, “The Library of Babel.” In this enigmatic narrative, Borges conjures a captivating and perplexing universe where the notion of infinity collides with the fragility of human understanding. Randomly arranged books, each containing exactly 410 pages, fill the Library of Babel’s infinite expanse of interlocking hexagonal rooms, encompassing all knowledge that currently exists or may exist in the future while paradoxically offering no true enlightenment. Shaw and Kahane invite audiences to contemplate the joy, grief, wonder, and bewilderment that spring from a life oversaturated in information.
*Hexagons was commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, San Francisco Performances, University Musical Society, Duke University, Philharmonie de Paris, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Wigmore Hall, and the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts.
