Brooklyn Rider – “the string quartet from Brooklyn that everybody talks about” (Washington Post) – will perform live on A Prairie Home Companion this Saturday, April 25, broadcast from New York’s Town Hall to some four million listeners on more than 600 public radio stations via American Public Media. The group will appear on A Prairie Home Companion alongside iconic host Garrison Keillor and the show’s company of performers, as well as a fellow musical guest, folk trio the Wailin’ Jennys. Few classical groups would fit in to this institution of Americana as well as Brooklyn Rider, which has toured extensively across the country with Grammy Award-winning banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck on behalf of their recent collaborative album, The Impostor. As the Seattle Times pointed out: “Brooklyn Rider … has been called the future of chamber music, with their embrace of new compositions and envelope-pushing collaborations with other global artists.”
The current Brooklyn Rider tour features music from the group’s latest album, Brooklyn Rider Almanac, a collection of new commissions from a variety of composers, each inspired by an artistic muse of relatively recent memory – from Igor Stravinsky to “Godfather of Soul” James Brown, and from Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner to iconic choreographer Mark Morris. The album’s composers are typically best known for their work outside the classical world, in genres ranging from jazz to indie-rock.
The current Brooklyn Rider tour features music from the group’s latest album, Brooklyn Rider Almanac, a collection of new commissions from a variety of composers, each inspired by an artistic muse of relatively recent memory – from Igor Stravinsky to “Godfather of Soul” James Brown, and from Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner to iconic choreographer Mark Morris. The album’s composers are typically best known for their work outside the classical world, in genres ranging from jazz to indie-rock.
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