"The range of colors and voices that So Percussion coaxes from its menagerie is astonishing and entrancing."
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Billboard Magazine
Since its formation at the Yale School of Music, So Percussion has
been creating music that is at turns raucous and touching, barbarous
and heartfelt. Believing that percussion instruments can communicate
all the extremes of emotion and musical possibility, they’ve created
a sound not easy to define. Called an “experimental powerhouse” by
The Village Voice and “brilliant” by The New York Times, the
Brooklyn-based quartet’s innovative work has quickly helped them
forge a unique and diverse career.
So Percussion’s Southern Theater debut will feature the regional
premiere of 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Reich’s Mallet Quartet
for two vibraphones and two marimbas, written for So
Percussion and slotted for Carnegie Hall in 2011, as well as the world
premiere of acclaimed Minneapolis-based composer Mary Ellen Childs’
And So for four players on two marimbas complimented by incidental
percussion.
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