LATEST NEWS
Detroit performance at DSO Cube
Saturday, September 17, 2022 Shara will be performing pieces from recent works at DSO Cube as part of New Music Detroit’s Strange Beautiful Music 15! Please join her for this wonderful night of music in beautiful Detroit. TICKETS
Listen now: No. 36 We are as Paper
Available for your listening pleasure is "No. 36, We are as paper", a song Shara composed for The Blue Hour. The release of this new song follows the previous release of album tracks by Negrón, Snider, Shaw, and Grimes, all available to preview and pre-order here: https://thebluehour.lnk.to/album
The Blue Hour song cycle out October 14
We’re so proud to share with you this new release, available October 14 via Nonesuch / New Amsterdam records. The Blue Hour is a song cycle with text from Carolyn Forché’s poem On Earth created with Shara and co-composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider, performed by Shara along with A Far Cry chamber orchestra.
David Lang's Death Speaks featuring Shara Nova: Long Play Festival 2022
May 01, 2022
at Mark Morris Dance Center
Long Play Festival, Brooklyn, NYC
About Death Speaks: Alt-diva Shara Nova sings David Lang’s post-Schubertian song cycle Death Speaks. Lang combed through every song by Franz Schubert and pulled out just the moments when Death is a character, speaking directly to us, and then set those texts to new music. The result is intimate, haunting, and strangely life-affirming “Schubertgaze” (New York Times). Performed here with Karl Larson (piano), Brendon Randall-Myers (guitar) and Conrad Harris (violin).
About Long Play Festival: Bang on a Can announces the launch of LONG PLAY, a new, three-day destination music festival. Originally scheduled for May of 2020, Long Play will be presented for the first time from Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 1, 2022. Featuring dozens of concerts, LONG PLAY also showcases a dense network of pioneering music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Roulette, Public Records, Littlefield, Mark Morris Dance Center, The Center for Fiction, outdoor events at The Plaza at 300 Ashland, and more.
Bang on a Can’s Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, say of the new festival:
“Right now – this minute – is an amazing time to love music. Musicians and listeners from every corner of the music world are pushing beyond their boundaries, questioning their roots, searching and stretching for the new. There has never been a time when music contained so much innovation and diversity, so much audacity and so much courage. And we want to show you all of it. With the creation of LONG PLAY we are presenting more kinds of musicians, playing more kinds of music, bending more kinds of minds. LONG PLAY expands and enlarges our scope and our reach, and puts more new faces on stages than ever before. It's a lot of music!”
Fueled by more than three decades of Marathon concerts, the LOUD Weekend festival at MASS MoCA, countless world tours and staged productions, Bang on a Can’s LONG PLAY is a supercharged ride through right now – for musicians and audiences alike.
Tickets must be purchased to attend. HERE
OCEAN BODY at Caroline Performing Arts
February 9–16, 2022
Ocean Body is a multi-screen film and music installation collaboratively created by composer/vocalists Shara Nova and Helga Davis, and director Mark DeChiazza. It examines the decade-long close friendship between the artists and seeks a necessary bridge for the division that exists not only in our society, but in ourselves, creating a multi-sensory experience of a place where sand, sun, and water surround experiences of intense communion and profound isolation.
Tickets *must* be reserved in advance HERE.
THE BLUE HOUR with the Louisville Orchestra
Shara will perform THE BLUE HOUR with the Louisville Orchestra on SAT 19 FEB at 8PM at Old Forester’s Paristown Hall • Based on the poetry of Caroline Forché, The Blue Hour is a collaborative composition by five women who explore the way humans try to control the uncontrollable.
Tickets available HERE.
LONG PLAY Festival in NYC: Apr 29 - May 1, 2022
“I HAVE NEVER LOVED SOMEONE” & “LOVE WAS THERE” featuring the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra - out now!
My Brightest Diamond is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of her hauntingly beautiful song “I Have Never Loved Someone” with the release of a stunning new version recorded live in August 2019 during a performance in Denmark for the Queen with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and German conductor Andreas Delfs. It’s a breathtaking commemoration and is accompanied by the recently commissioned “Love Was There” featuring Vincent Taurelle (Air, Beck, Christine and The Queens) on synths and Lydia Cleaver from the famed Cass Tech Harp and Vocal Ensemble on harp. The new two-song single is out today via all DSPs, available HERE.
“I Have Never Loved Someone” was originally released in 2011 on My Brightest Diamond’s All Things Will Unwind LP and over the past decade has grown to be one of her most beloved songs. The release of the song was followed by a solo performance of the single for La Blogothèque in 2011, watch HERE, which has amassed more than 750K views and cemented the track’s legendary status. La Blogothèque director Christophe ‘Chyrde’ Abric emotionally recalled this “Take Away” performance today, “Over the years, I’ve produced literally thousands of videos, with hundreds of artists. And I know that only a few ones will survive everything in the fragile drawers of my failing memory. The one we recorded with Shara in Berlin is one of them. It’s been 10 years now since we filmed her, on a calm and hazy morning. Ten years since, in one take, in 4 minutes, she strung a special chord in our hearts that we didn’t know even existed, and is now here forever, ready to make us cry in seconds. I’m forever grateful for this, forever bound, by this moment, to the wonderful human being Shara is. And guess what? I’ve played the video to write those few lines, and I’m crying again.”
OCEAN BODY at Wasserman Projects
Wasserman Projects is pleased to present their Fall 2021 Exhibition, Ocean Body – featuring an immersive four-screen, multi-channel sound installation by Helga Davis, Mark DeChiazza, and Shara Nova. The work brings together song, found text, conversations, and new compositions written and performed by Davis and Nova in a sculptural dress built for two by artist, Annica Cuppetelli. Filmed and directed by DeChiazza, the installation explores the potential of interracial coalition through the deep yet tenuous bonds of the decade-long close friendship between the two women.
Paired alongside the installation is a six-person group exhibition featuring works by John Dante Bianchi, Lily Cox-Richard, Ed Fraga, Jack Henry, Sandra Osip, and Ashley Eliza Williams. Mirroring the duality of intimacy and isolation in our relationships with each other and the world around us, the two and three-dimensional works as part of Ocean Body range from the monolithic to the minute. The exhibition will be on view by appointment beginning September 29 through December 18, 2021.
Please join us for the opening day of the exhibition on September 25th, in the presence of the artists during our VIP pre-registered time slots for guaranteed entry from 6-9pm. Click here to reserve. Please note: from 12-6pm, Wasserman Projects will be open on a first come basis, with limited capacity.