VULTURE: 58 Minutes With the Omnivorous Composer Caroline Shaw
VULTURE: 58 Minutes With the Omnivorous Composer Caroline Shaw
BY JUSTIN DAVIDSON
“Shaw’s delivery also reminds me of the way her music — the 2015 string quartet Plan and Elevation, say — will suddenly dart into a 17th-century cadence, linger on a fragment of Debussy, then shake itself off with a dissonant shiver, without ever losing the thread. (That work is on the Attacca Quartet’s 2019 all-Shaw album Orange, which recently won a Grammy for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble.)”