Liquid Music
A boundary-defying new concert experience
presented by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
2013-14 Liquid Music Season Announcement COMING SOON! The 2013-14 Liquid Music Season is not currently available for season ticket renewals or new season ticket purchases.
Liquid Music is a new concert series presented by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra that expands the world of classical music through innovative new projects, boundary-defying artists, and unique presentation formats. The name emerged as a reference to program flow – as fluidity of concert structure, often with a loose narrative undercurrent, is a hallmark of this series. "Liquid" also has a sensory connotation that strikes us as just right.
Premieres permeate the season, as do new collaborations between local and national musicians. You will notice strong attention paid to the visual dimension of performance, and a deepened partnership initiative with our friends at the Walker Art Center. Concerts at our home base – the intimate Music Room at SPCO Center – will be cabaret-style, with full bar, ambient lighting and excellent sight lines.
We hope you come to performances with eagerness and curiosity. We will in turn provide experiences that are intellectually and virtuosically fulfilling; and even better – playful, beautiful and unexpectedly engaging. See below for details on each event.
Laurie Anderson
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Ben Frost and special guests
Sat, Feb 9 at 8pm “The emotional power of Frost's music comes precisely from the stark contrast between extremely basic musical material and the deadly virtual instruments he invents to perform it… This is Arvo Pärt as arranged by Trent Reznor.”–Wire Magazine |
Sarah Kirkland Snider, Shara Worden and yMusic
Tue & Wed, February 26 & 27 at 7:30pm
“Snider’s music lives in a netherland between richly orchestrated indie rock and straight chamber music, an increasingly populous inter-genre space that, as of yet, has produced only a few clear, confident voices. Snider is perhaps the most sophisticated of them all.” –Pitchfork |
NEW CONCERT ADDED: Valgeir Sigurðsson
Tue, March 12 at 7:30pm “…a staggeringly beautiful collection of heavyweight, noise-inflected classicist compositions….Fascinating and adventurous, we have a welcome foil to the overtly pretty side of modern classical music and a superb body of work in its own right.” – Squealer Mag |
TO BE RESCHEDULED: Zola Jesus and Stephen Prutsman; Ian Ding and Ashley Bathgate
Rescheduled dates to be announced. Music Room at SPCO Center
“Not many female pop voices have sounded like this, at least since 30 years ago, when some opera-trained singers — Pat Benatar, Donna Summer — were on the charts.” –The New York Times on Zola Jesus |
Jace Clayton's (DJ/rupture) Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, David Friend, Bryan Nichols, Emily Manzo, deVon Gray and Arooj Aftab
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RESCHEDULED: Reid Anderson's The Rough Mixes with Jeff Ballard, Steven Copes, Sunmi Chang, Anthony Ross, Cristina Guadalupe and more
Tue & Wed, June 18 & 19 at 7:30pm “Anderson's compositions project a grandness and an eloquence that, even during the airy, quiet moments, constantly cause the listener to question how each musician could be so fully engaged.”–AllMusic |
Thank you to our generous Liquid Music
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A collection of songs and stories by performance artist and experimental music pioneer Laurie Anderson
Rare US appearance by electronic composer, performer and producer Ben Frost; preview of new work prior to a highly anticipated 2013 album release
Midwest premiere of Snider’s song cycle Penelope (excerpts) featuring vocalist Shara Worden, plus new work from Worden's band My Brightest Diamond and chamber ensemble yMusic
A Twin Cities debut from Icelandic composer, musician and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson 
Shared evening featuring new song arrangements by singer-songwriter Zola Jesus and former SPCO Artistic Partner Stephen Prutsman; new works for percussion and cello duo Ian Ding and Ashley Bathgate (Bang on a Can All-Stars)
A performance piece inspired by the life of gay African-American composer, pianist and vocalist Julius Eastman (1940-1990), featuring new arrangements of three Eastman compositions, including Evil Nigger for four pianos
WORLD PREMIERE
