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1 Apr 2021, Â鶹ԼÅÄ Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
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Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW 2020-21 Season Digital Concerts: Caroline Shaw

Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Orchestra of Wales
Digital Concerts: Caroline Shaw
19:30 Thu 1 Apr 2021 Â鶹ԼÅÄ Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte
Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte

About This Event

Caroline Shaw is not only the youngest composer ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music, which she received for her a cappella vocal work Partita for 8 Voices, she is also a talented violinist and a Grammy-winning singer in Roomful of Teeth, the ensemble for which Partita for 8 Voices was written.

On her Entr’acte Caroline writes:
Entr’acte was written in 2011 after hearing the Brentano Quartet play Haydn’s Op. 77 No. 2 — with their spare and soulful shift to the D-flat major trio in the minuet. It is structured like a minuet and trio, riffing on that classical form but taking it a little further. I love the way some music (like the minuets of Op. 77) suddenly takes you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass, in a kind of absurd, subtle, technicolour transition.

It was first performed by the Brentano Quartet at Princeton University in April 2011, and this string orchestra version was commissioned by A Far Cry in July 2014.

Programme Note © Amy Campbell