American - Musician | 1982 -
Be free, and live life fully.
Caroline Shaw
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It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
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'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
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I don't really call myself a composer.
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I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
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I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.
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I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.
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Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
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I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.
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Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.
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I consider myself a musician.
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I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they're some of my closest friends.
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