Sufjan Stevens News

 
When planets collide: Nico Muhly's orchestral pop odyssey
Limelight Magazine
The American wunderkind teams with Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner for a song cycle with a difference. When I press Nico Muhly for details of what he's been listening to on his iPod during his visit to Sydney to perform his new song cycle, ...


 
Balanchine, Sufjan Stevens and Wheeldon Highlights of Upcoming City Ballet Season
WNYC
In October, the company will perform a world premiere by corps de ballet member Justin Peck set to the Sufjan Stevens album Enjoy Your Rabbit. The electronica record and song cycle is based on the Chinese zodiac. Stevens and Peck are collaborating on ...


 
All Things Considered
WBUR
By This 'Beak And Claw,' A Trio Shall Synthesize By Robert Christgau Left to right: Son Lux, Serengeti and Sufjan Stevens collaborate on a sometimes humorous but mostly beautiful EP. (Illustration by John Ciambriello) Sufjan Stevens is a classically ...


 
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Vivid Sydney daily report #2: Efterklang, Modular and APRA Song Summit
inthemix
It's easy to make fun of the overweening ambition that can lead a pop performer to take on a posse of string players, but it's actually produced some of the most memorable live music of recent years, from Portishead to Bjork to Sufjan Stevens (who ...
Vivid Sydney is here, andwe're covering every day of itFasterLouder
Vivid Sydney transforms Sydney Harbour into a canvas of light, music and ideasMarketWatch (press release)
A process of illuminationSydney Morning Herald
CisionWire (press release)
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Sydney Morning Herald
When planets and talent align
Sydney Morning Herald
... a chamber opera Dark Sisters, about a polygamous sect in the American southwest, and preparations to bring to Sydney a collaboration with indie musicians Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner (the National) as part of the Vivid Festival line-up.

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This Week on Stage: An actor breaks a leg, old Jews tell jokes, and a 'Cock ...
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
“Seth Bockley's dialogue is funny and quick,” writes Keith Staskiewicz, and the “complex, moving songs by Gabriel Kahane that sound like a melding of Steven Sondheim and Sufjan Stevens.” EW grade: B+ The Common Pursuit Simon Gray's 1984 drama about ...


 
Entertainment Weekly
February House
Entertainment Weekly
Bolstered by a series of complex, moving songs by Gabriel Kahane that sound like a melding of Steven Sondheim and Sufjan Stevens, the musical skips deftly from contrapuntal dissonance to an open-air folksiness that itself is a fascinating counterpoint ...

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