Caroline Shaw Plan Elevation (2015) w, score

Pulitzer Prizewinning composer, violinist, and singer Caroline Shaw s Plan Elevation for string quartet. Shaw writes in the program notes: I have always loved drawing the architecture around me when traveling, and some of my favorite lessons in musical composition have occurred by chance in my drawing practice over the years. While writing a string quartet to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks, I returned to these essential ideas of space and proportion to the challenges of trying to represent them on paper. The title, Plan Elevation, refers to two standard ways of representing architecture essentially an orthographic, or birds eye, perspective (plan), and a side view which features more ornamental detail (elevation). This binary is also a gentle metaphor for ones path in any endeavor often the actual journey and results are quite different (and perhaps more elevated) than the original COMPOSER: Caroline Shaw STRING QUAR