Tang 25! "Who Turns Out the Light," Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion, featuring Ringdown

Name: Tang 25! "Who Turns Out the Light," Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion, featuring Ringdown
Start: 2025-10-18T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, New York 12866

Schedule

Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, New York 12866 | Saratoga Springs, NY

Join us at the Arthur Zankel Music Center on Friday, October 18, at 8 pm, for a performance by Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion from their Grammy-winning album Rectangles and Circumstance, and their first album Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part, with an interlude from Shaw’s pop duo Ringdown.
Free tickets are available on the Tang's website.
In celebration of the Tang Museum’s 25th anniversary, this performance of Who Turns Out the Light continues a long-standing artistic partnership between Sō Percussion and the Tang. The event is co-presented with the Arthur Zankel Music Center and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), which joins as a community partner during renovations of the Spa Little Theater—helping maintain strong connections to the region through collaborative programming.
About the Artists:
Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammy awards, an honorary doctorate from Yale, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Caroline has written over 100 works in the last decade, for Anne Sofie von Otter, Davóne Tines, Yo Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, LA Phil, Philharmonia Baroque, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Aizuri Quartet, The Crossing, Dover Quartet, Calidore Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, Miro Quartet, I Giardini, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Ariadne Greif, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Britt Festival, and the Vail Dance Festival. She has contributed production to albums by Rosalía, Woodkid, and Nas. Her work as vocalist or composer has appeared in several films, TV series, and podcasts including The Humans, Bombshell, Yellowjackets, Maid, Dark, Beyonce’s Homecoming, Tár, Dolly Parton’s America, and More Perfect. Shaw and Sō Percussion performed at the Tang in September 2022. Her favorite color is yellow, and her favorite smell is rosemary.
For twenty years and counting, Sō Percussion (Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting) has redefined chamber music for the 21st century through an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (The New Yorker). Sō’s commitment to the creation and amplification of new work, and their extraordinary powers of perception and communication have made them a trusted partner or composers, allowing the writing of music that expands the style and capacity of brilliant voices of our time. Sō’s collaborative composition partners include Caroline Shaw, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Nathalie Joachim, Dan Trueman, Kendall K. Williams, Angélica Negrón, Shodekeh Talifero, claire rousay, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Bora Yoon, Olivier Tarpaga, Bobby Previte, Matmos, and many others. Sō Percussion first performed at the Tang in October 2014.
Ringdown—featuring composer-musicians Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan—is an “ecstatically blissful” (Night After Night) and “irresistible” (Feast of Music) cinematic electro-pop duo. They create music that floats up from the dusty record bin between Brahms and Brandi Carlile, and centers around joy, human connection, and trying to inspire people to feel more love (and maybe even reach out to a crush). Their debut album, Lady on the Bike, was recently released by Nonesuch Records, and they have performed across the US and abroad at Big Ears, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Public Records, SXSW, Thuringia Bach Festival, and more. The duo, who are partners on and off the stage, split their time between Portland, Oregon, and New York City.