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The Osso Quartet at 21c with a Screening of Sufjan Stevens' The BQE
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Doors 7:30, Show 8:00pm
$10 advance, available at 21c Front Desk & ear X-tacy (cash only), or online
via PayPal
$12 day of show, at the door
The Osso Quartet, makes an unexpected tour stop at the 21c Museum for their most
recent album Run Rabbit Run, the first full-length album composition by
Sufjan Stevens in four years. Ranked a 7.7 by Pitchfork Magazine, Osso’s Run Rabbit
Run enlists an array of New York composers who arranged oft-collaborator
Stevens’ Enjoy your Rabbit for a traditional string quartet. The evening
will feature works from the album as well as a special screening of Stevens’ The
BQE - a cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and
the Hula-Hoop.
Doors open at 7:30pm with the screening scheduled to begin at 8:00pm in partnership
with the Louisville Film Society. The quartet, based in Brooklyn, NY is no stranger
to the art-house concert venue, with other stops including the Indianapolis Museum
of Art and the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
Pitchfork Magazine writes:
'Run Rabbit Run is an uncategorizable oddity: a collection of inventively
arranged chamber pieces for string quartet that just happen to be written by Sufjan
Stevens. The source material comes from Stevens' second album, Enjoy Your Rabbit,
a set of glitchy, playful electronic miniatures based on the Chinese zodiac cycle
that bore zero resemblance to the orchestral folk-pop for which he would become
famous. Taking a page from Bang on a Can All-Stars' reworking of Brian Eno's Music
for Airports and contemporary classical ensemble Alarm Will Sound's transcriptions
of Aphex Twin, the string quartet Osso has hired a phalanx of New York's hippest
young composers to recast these works as a surprisingly full-bodied and thoughtful
series of picaresques. The results show gratifyingly little of the shallowness and
amateurism that sometimes infects ventures beginning in rock and crossing over into
the classical realm...'
Read the full review at: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13548-run-rabbit-run/.