'Rectangles and Circumstance,' an album of ten songs co-written and performed by Caroline Shaw & @SoPercussion, is due June 14. You can hear the title track now and pre-order the album at carolineshawsopercussion.lnk.to/RectanglesAndC…

Ringdown—the duo featuring creator-musicians Danni Parpan & Caroline Shaw—has released 'Two-Step,' its first single on Nonesuch, with strings, keys, and synth melodies rippling around a crisp beat and Danni Lee’s vocals. You can hear it at ringdown.lnk.to/TwoStep

Mary Halvorson inaugurates the 'Nonesuch Selects' series—in which artists stop by the office, pick some favorites from the library, share a few words—with music by Laurie Anderson, Tyondai Braxton, @JeffParkerSound, Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet & @KronoQuartet. youtube.com/watch?v=b8oeMx…

This is more than just a problem with music journalism. Something is rotten at a deeper level.

No easy feat to profile the life & oeuvre of composer Caroline Shaw--who has worked with everyone, it seems, from Beyoncé to Ken Burns--but no surprise that the brilliant kristen millares young was up to the task! A pleasure to edit this week's artist profile All Classical Radio:

“People are more important than music,” Shaw said of her search for alignment and kindness. She calls writing, playing, and listening to music “an exchange of empathy.”

- Caroline Shaw

Your reflection is on a delay, since the image has to bounce off the mirror and return to your eyes. If you’re one meter from the mirror, that delay is 0.0000000067 seconds. Any longer, and your mirror is likely bugged from the other side, and that reflection may not be your own.

How does a legislature block and slow roll lawsuits that accuse it of drawing discriminatory electoral maps?

Simple: By claiming privilege.
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Let’s talk… This is 20 years ago… let’s examine the skies and the scarecrow & the texture of the video the colouring….I was one to always incorporate two videos in one but this video was 3 before it was the thing to do🛸👽 looks like it just dropped🔥

One ought to take your face between both hands and look steadily into your eyes so that you would recognize yourself in the eyes of the other and from then on be incapable even of thinking the kind of things you wrote in this letter.

Franz Kafka, 1920.

Folks, it's not a 'teacher shortage.' It's a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the dignity and pay they deserve.

“Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you — and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing else does.”

~ George Saunders, Some thoughts on kindness

Hey Substackers, we’ve posted our latest weekly Substack with Rhiannon Giddens, Carminho, k.d. lang, @nataliemerchant, @helltweet, and Caroline Shaw news. You can read it and subscribe for free at nonesuch.substack.com/p/rhiannon-gid…

'Among the pleasures of solving a lot of puzzles is learning to recognize the creative voices of particular constructors, which can be as distinctive and personalized as those of a composer or poet.' — Joshua Kosman datebook.sfchronicle.com/classical/puzz…

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A moment from Shaw's 'Entr'acte' as part of The Westerlies's sonorous Crypt performance last Tuesday! If you missed the chance to immerse yourself in their dulcet brassy tones, check out their full album, 'Move,' out on all platforms!

🎥 : Andrew Ousley

A tiny snippet from Caroline Shaw’s ‘How to fold the wind’.

Hear the full work on RTÉ lyric fm this week, as Liz Nolan lyric shares a different concert highlight each day on The Full Score.

Or be part of the first live audience to hear us perform it in person this June LouthCMS!

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Graveyards and Gardens is an unforgettable performance installation conceived, created and performed by composer Caroline Shaw and choreographer Vanessa Goodman. musiconmain

Wednesday Apr 12th, 2023 @ 7:30 PM - Saturday Apr 15th, 2023 @ 8:30 PM
Tickets: showpass.com/caroline-shaw-…

The amazing GRAMMY-winning vocal band roomful of teeth return!

New album 'Rough Magic' is released on May 5th 2023, preceded by beautiful new single 'The Isle: Ill. Caliban', composed by Caroline Shaw.

Listen & pre-order here:
roomfulofteeth.bandcamp.com/album/rough-ma…