NEW YORK TIMES: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Composers
NEW YORK TIMES: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Composers
“Justin Peck, choreographer
Caroline Shaw’s “Partita” spun me round and round, turned me inside out and launched me into a whole new understanding of what music can be. The piece feels three-dimensional, voluminous, astronomical — but also intimate, personal and incremental. It’s like someone whispering into your ear while you’re climbing the tallest mountain. It is uniquely fragrant; it has needlelike precision; it organically spills through some of the most sophisticated harmonies. In the mouths of Roomful of Teeth, it is a virtuosic display of the incredible range of the human voice.”