Enjoy an evening at CAM exploring the convergence of music and visual art with musicians from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. After an introduction from Ferring Foundation Chief Curator Dean Daderko on our exhibition Like Water, this chamber concert pairs Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, a shape-shifting contemporary piece inspired by Haydn’s classical forms, with Claude Debussy’s luminous String Quartet in G minor. Both works embody themes of fluidity and transformation, creating artistic dialogues through sonic motion and resonance.
Doors open to explore the galleries at 7:00pm. Bar open 7:00–7:45pm.
Tickets are $20 for general admission or $10 for students and artists. Click here to purchase individual tickets to this performance.
Featuring:
- Erin Schreiber, violin
- Shawn Weil, violin
- Beth Guterman Chu, viola
- Bjorn Ranheim, cello
A few things to know:
- At age 30, Caroline Shaw became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her a cappella composition Partita for 8 Voices. She is also a two-time Grammy Award winner, receiving the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Narrow Sea, and the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for Rectangles and Circumstance.
- Entr’acte was written in 2011 after Shaw heard the Brentano Quartet play Haydn’s Op. 77 No. 2. According to Shaw, “It is structured like a minuet and trio, riffing on that classical form but taking it a little further. I love the way some music (like the minuets of Op. 77) suddenly takes you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass, in a kind of absurd, subtle, technicolor transition.”
- In Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor, themes or motifs reoccur throughout the work with variations, cyclical yet undergoing subtle transformations. The work premiered in 1893, when Debussy was 31, and was followed the next year by his revolutionary Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.