Asthmatic Kitty Records announces the following:
Sufjan Stevens will be performing with strings, horns, and a full band in the distinctive contours of the Allen Room, a 500-capacity theater with a unique view over Columbus Circle for two performances January 14, 2006 as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series. This uncommon performance will feature new arrangements of familiar songs from Seven Swans, Michigan, and Illinois, as well as one or two new “pieces.”
Having spent the past few weeks anguishing over staff paper, etching amateur notations, channeling the muses of Charles Ives and Benjamin Britten, Sufjan is now ready to demonstrate the merits of time spent in music school (oh, many years ago!) holed up in a practice room, hunched over music theory periodicals and Barret Oboe Method textbooks. This is not rock-n-roll. Nor is it Broadway Theater. The pom poms have been put in retirement. Instead, Sufjan’s band could be wearing shirts with collars and neckties. Or even–dare we say it–street clothes. There will be violas and violins. In attendance will be wealthy New Yorkers, upper east-siders, grown men and women who can complete the Sunday Times crossword puzzle in ten minutes flat. Please join us with a look of surprise on your face. If you can’t afford the ticket prices, then please consider that surprised look in the privacy of your own home, in front of a mirror.
Information: The Allen Room is located on the 5th floor of the Time Warner Center at Broadway and 60th Street, New York City.
For locals, the box office is located in The Shops at Columbus Circle inside the Broadway at 60th Street entrance.
Main Phone Line: 212.258.98
www.lincolncenter.org
