The top of the Sô Percussion website reads, “If you think about it, drums are the new violins.” Uh, what? It’s a quote from a recent New York Times article about the rise of percussionists. I read the article. Uh, what the poop?
That’s not fair. The article is pretty great- developing the journalist’s relationship to percussion along with the rise of percussion in the classical music world. But, still, I continue to have a difficult time understanding a drum as a violin.
We will see tonight as Sô Percussion, a quartet of young (for the classical music world at least) Yale School of Music grads, plays two sets at the UofM Museum of Art. The first set (7:30pm) will be performed in the museum’s apse while the second (10pm) will start in the apse and travel around to different parts of the museum.
Then, Sô Percussion after party at eve in Kerrytown with DJ Forest Juziuk of Dark Matter on the ones and twos. Showgoers and non-showgoers are very invited.
Tickets are steep and almost sold out but any open tickets will be available at the door. (The $40 ticket price and limited availability raises the question of whether UMS should even be presenting Sô Percussion. Very antithetical to a goal of inclusiveness. How far should UMS stray from this mission to present top talent? Oh, Saturday afternoon philosophy).
Farewell me maties, Bennett
