Upcoming Events at Fox Theater - Oakland
Fri Jul 21, 8:00 PM - Fri Jul 21, 11:00 PM
1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612
Community: Lake Merritt
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SUFJAN STEVENS, NICO MUHLY, BRYCE DESSNER & JAMES MCALISTER PERFORM: PLANETARIUM will perform at the historic Fox Theater in Oakland on Friday, July 21st! Tickets are on sale NOW via the Fox Theater's official website www.TheFoxOakland.com. About PLANET
Event Details
SUFJAN STEVENS, NICO MUHLY, BRYCE DESSNER & JAMES MCALISTER PERFORM: PLANETARIUM will perform at the historic Fox Theater in Oakland on Friday, July 21st!
Tickets are on sale NOW via the Fox Theater's official website www.TheFoxOakland.com.
About PLANETARIUM:
To celebrate the release of their forthcoming, collaborative album Planetarium, Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister will play a limited run of very special dates, accompanied onstage by strings and brass, this summer.
Planetarium unites Stevens’ vocals, McAlister’s beats, Dessner’s guitar performance, and Muhly’s instrumental compositions in a far-reaching musical journey: from lush piano ballads to rock anthems, classical cadenzas to electronic beats with Stevens’ distinctive vocals providing a center of gravity.
After sketching the framework of the song cycle and performing the piece as a band—flanked by a string quartet and seven trombones—in various forms, the quartet put the project on hold for several years. Returning to the raw material in 2016, Stevens and McAlister reversed their typical process, taking recordings of the live show and adapting to the studio. “We had recorded all the arrangements and the live parts in a studio after our last performance,” says Stevens, “so years later when we all kind of settled down, we said, ‘let’s open Pandora’s box.’”
In the time between Planetarium’s conception and release, Muhly wrote a new viola concerto and a commission for the Metropolitan Opera; Dessner released Trouble Will Find Me with The National, toured extensively and moved to Paris; and Stevens recorded and released Carrie & Lowell and, with McAlister, toured the album worldwide.
“Mercury,” the second track to be released from Planetarium. Watch its accompanying video here. Planetarium is set for release June 9 via 4AD—preorder the album here.
Tickets are on sale NOW via the Fox Theater's official website www.TheFoxOakland.com.
About PLANETARIUM:
To celebrate the release of their forthcoming, collaborative album Planetarium, Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister will play a limited run of very special dates, accompanied onstage by strings and brass, this summer.
Planetarium unites Stevens’ vocals, McAlister’s beats, Dessner’s guitar performance, and Muhly’s instrumental compositions in a far-reaching musical journey: from lush piano ballads to rock anthems, classical cadenzas to electronic beats with Stevens’ distinctive vocals providing a center of gravity.
After sketching the framework of the song cycle and performing the piece as a band—flanked by a string quartet and seven trombones—in various forms, the quartet put the project on hold for several years. Returning to the raw material in 2016, Stevens and McAlister reversed their typical process, taking recordings of the live show and adapting to the studio. “We had recorded all the arrangements and the live parts in a studio after our last performance,” says Stevens, “so years later when we all kind of settled down, we said, ‘let’s open Pandora’s box.’”
In the time between Planetarium’s conception and release, Muhly wrote a new viola concerto and a commission for the Metropolitan Opera; Dessner released Trouble Will Find Me with The National, toured extensively and moved to Paris; and Stevens recorded and released Carrie & Lowell and, with McAlister, toured the album worldwide.
“Mercury,” the second track to be released from Planetarium. Watch its accompanying video here. Planetarium is set for release June 9 via 4AD—preorder the album here.
