Roomful of Teeth & Ragazze Quartet
Shaw & Smith
A heartrending requiem for extinct animal species
In the 20th century some 500 vertebrate species became extinct. And the end is not yet in sight: life on earth is undergoing a sixth mass extinction, this time caused by human activity. Gabriella Smith wrote a requiem for those extinct animal species, in which she has the Latin names of those animals recited one by one. Roomful of Teeth also sing the overwhelming Partita for 8 Voices, composed by their member Caroline Shaw. This piece won Shaw the Pulitzer Prize for Music, making her the youngest ever recipient.
programme
Gabriella Smith (1991)
Requiem
Caroline Shaw (1982)
Partita for 8 Voices
performers
Roomful of Teeth: vocal ensemble
Ragazze Quartet: string quartet