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Steve Reich Benefit Concert to Support The Aldrich Steve Reich Benefit Concert to Support The Aldrich

with Sō Percussion

Sun December 15th, 2013

7:30PM

Main Space

Minimum Age: All Ages

Doors Open: 6:30PM

Show Time: 7:30PM

Event Ticket: $50-$1000

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The friendship between late artist Sol LeWitt and Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Steve Reich will be celebrated at a special performance to benefit The Aldrich here at (Le) Poisson Rouge.
 
This innovative evening, co-hosted by The Aldrich, Paula Cooper, and Lori and Janusz Ordover on the occasion of the exhibition Sol LeWitt: The Music Collection, will benefit the Museum’s pioneering exhibitions and public programs.
 
Save the date now! Steve Reich will perform Clapping Music and lead a recital of Drumming, a work forever linked to LeWitt. The growing success of the LeWitt’s career in the late 1960s and early 1970s allowed him to purchase scores directly from musicians in order to support their efforts in a world that wasn’t as highly commodified as that of visual art. Reich lacked the funds for the first performance of Drumming, and LeWitt, in a now legendary gesture, purchased several of Reich’s scores, allowing him to acquire the necessary, but expensive, glockenspiels.
 
This performance will complement Music, the Museum’s semester-long series of exhibitions and related events that explore the intersection of art and music in photography, installation, sculpture, new media, performance, and archives.
 
Table seating 8 guests ($840 tax deductible) · $1000.00
Table seating 4 guests ($420 tax deductible) · $500.00
Table seating 2 guests ($110 tax deductible) · $150.00
STANDING only ($30 tax deductible) · $50.00
 
**TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE LPR BOX OFFICE**
 
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TABLE SEATING POLICY
Table seating for all seated shows is reserved exclusively for ticket holders who purchase “Table Seating” tickets. By purchasing a “Table Seating” ticket you agree to also purchase a minimum of two food and/or beverage items per person. Table seating is first come, first seated. Please arrive early for the best choice of available seats. Seating begins when doors open. Tables are communal so you may be seated with other patrons. We do not take table reservations.
 
A standing room area is available by the bar for all guests who purchase “Standing Room” tickets. Food and beverage can be purchased at the bar but there is no minimum purchase required in this area.
 
All tickets sales are final. No refund or credits.

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Steve Reich Benefit Concert to Support The Aldrich

Steve Reich was recently called “our greatest living composer” (The New York Times), “America’s greatest living composer.” (The Village VOICE), “…the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “…among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times).. From his early taped speech pieces It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to his and video artist Beryl Korot’s digital video opera Three Tales (2002), Mr. Reich’s path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. “There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them,” states The Guardian (London). (read more here here)

Sō Percussion

Since their founding 25 years ago, Sō Percussion – Jason Treuting, Adam Sliwinski, Josh Quillen, and Eric Cha-Beach – have been hailed for their gripping performances and wildly creative collaborations, winning a 2025 Grammy award for Rectangles and Circumstance, their most recent Nonesuch Records collaboration with Caroline Shaw. Sō now celebrates its 25th anniversary, not with a retrospective release but, more characteristically, with an 8-disc box set featuring entirely new and previously-unreleased recordings, coming out on Cantaloupe Music on Sept 26.

AND at LPR Sept 10, we’re throwing a party to kick it all off!

While we can’t play all 500 minutes from the record, we’ll dig deep with shorter works by Eric and Jason, Vijay IyerOlivier Tarpaga and a world premiere – Machine Listening by Dan Trueman. Plus, the phenomenal Becca Stevens will join us onstage, singing Caroline Shaw’s Narrow Sea.

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