Technical Information
ca. 8’
cello, flower pots
Premiered November 2012
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Performance History
May 22, 2016
Concerts on the Slope, St. John's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, NY
May 6, 2016
Chamber Music Live, LeFrak Concert Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, Queens, NY
March 5, 2016
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Split bill with Jamie Jordan
May 18, 2015
New Music in Bryant Park, Bryant Park Upper Terrace, New York, NY
April 3, 2015
12@Hotchkiss Free Series, Gibson Center for the Arts, Washington College, Chestertown, MD
October 6, 2014
The Second Movement Concert Series, The English Building Markets, New Haven, CT
February 1, 2013
Firehouse New Music Series, The Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NY
Hosted by Iktus Percussion
November 20, 2012
Princeton Sound Kitchen, Princeton, NJ
World Premiere Performance
About the Work
Boris S. Kerner lives in Stuttgart and is the author of Introduction to Modern Traffic Flow Theory and Control: The Long Road to Three-Phase Traffic Theory. Many thanks to Hannah and Mike of the brilliant duo New Morse Code for working with me along the way with this piece, which is another in a series of expositions on the curious phrase “the detail of the pattern is movement”.
– Caroline Shaw
About the Composer
Caroline Shaw is a New York-based musician—vocalist, violinist, composer, and producer—who performs in solo and collaborative projects. She was the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for Partita for 8 Voices, written for the Grammy-winning Roomful of Teeth, of which she is a member. Recent commissions include new works for Renée Fleming with Inon Barnatan, Dawn Upshaw with Sō Percussion and Gil Kalish, Seattle Symphony, Anne Sofie von Otter with Philharmonia Baroque, the LA Philharmonic, Juilliard 415, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with John Lithgow, the Dover Quartet, TENET, The Crossing, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, the Calidore Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, the Baltimore Symphony, and Roomful of Teeth with A Far Cry. Caroline’s film scores include Erica Fae’s To Keep the Light and Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline as well as the upcoming short 8th Year of the Emergency by Maureen Towey. She has produced for Kanye West (The Life of Pablo; Ye) and Nas (NASIR), and has contributed to records by The National, and by Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry. Once she got to sing in three part harmony with Sara Bareilles and Ben Folds at the Kennedy Center, and that was pretty much the bees’ knees and elbows. Caroline has studied at Rice, Yale, and Princeton, currently teaches at NYU, and is a Creative Associate at the Juilliard School. She has held residencies at Dumbarton Oaks, the Banff Centre, Music on Main, and the Vail Dance Festival. Caroline loves the color yellow, otters, Beethoven opus 74, Mozart opera, Kinhaven, the smell of rosemary, and the sound of a janky mandolin.
Performance History
May 22, 2016
Concerts on the Slope, St. John's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, NY
May 6, 2016
Chamber Music Live, LeFrak Concert Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, Queens, NY
March 5, 2016
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Split bill with Jamie Jordan
May 18, 2015
New Music in Bryant Park, Bryant Park Upper Terrace, New York, NY
April 3, 2015
12@Hotchkiss Free Series, Gibson Center for the Arts, Washington College, Chestertown, MD
October 6, 2014
The Second Movement Concert Series, The English Building Markets, New Haven, CT
February 1, 2013
Firehouse New Music Series, The Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NY
Hosted by Iktus Percussion
November 20, 2012
Princeton Sound Kitchen, Princeton, NJ
World Premiere Performance