The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents Caroline Shaw, Alicia Olatuja & Sō Percussion: Rectangles and Circumstance on Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 7:30pm on the David Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall. Tickets start at $40 and are available at https://www.92ny.org/event/caroline-shaw-and-so-percussion.

Pulitzer Prize- and triple Grammy-winning composer and vocalist Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion – the ensemble redefining chamber music for the 21st century – mesmerized in their 92NY performance in 2023 with music from their acclaimed Nonesuch recording Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part. They return with the New York premiere of music from their acclaimed new album, Rectangles and Circumstance — a beguiling blend of poetry and sonic possibility based on words by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Gertrude Stein, and others. The program culminates in their striking reimagining of Schubert’s “An die Musik,” which Sō percussionist Adam Sliwinski describes as akin to “a sunken cathedral emerging out of the murky depths of an ancient underwater city.” Weaving her own spell, soprano Alicia Olatuja joins Sō for Narrow Sea, the 2017 work Shaw created for Sō Percussion – earning a Grammy in its recording with Dawn Upshaw – a haunting exploration of the shape-shifting nature of water, with texts drawn from The Sacred Harp.