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TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS

SANDBOX PERCUSSION

ANDY AKIHO'S SEVEN PILLARS

Saturday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m. | McCullough Theatre

Described as “exhilarating” (The New York Times), and “virtuosic and utterly mesmerizing” (The Guardian), Brooklyn’s Sandbox Percussion has established themselves as a leading proponent of this generation of contemporary percussion chamber music. 2021’s Grammy-nominated record Seven Pillars is the jaw-dropping result of a years-long collaboration with trailblazing composer Andy Akiho. The boldly genre-defying audio and video collaboration consists of seven ensemble movements and one solo movement for each member of Sandbox. With a striking lighting scheme by Michael Joseph McQuilken, Seven Pillars is the largest-scale chamber music work that Akiho has written and that Sandbox has commissioned, with their collaboration spanning the past eight years. The 80-minute, 11-part work has a palindromic structure, with the “pillars” — all written for more than one musician — interspersed with four solos.

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Event Details

• Date: Saturday, November 5, 2022
• Time: 7:30 p.m.
• Venue: McCullough Theatre
• Website: https://texasperformingarts.org/season/sandbox-percussion-2022-mccullough-theatre-austin-texas

Ticket Information

• Cost: $10.00-$50.00

Presenter Details

• Name: Texas Performing Arts

Texas Performing Arts is the performing arts presenting program of The University of Texas at Austin and operates campus venues including Bass Concert Hall and McCullough Theatre.  It is the home of the Lexus Broadway in Austin series. In calendar year 2019 Bass Concert Hall had the highest number of tickets sold of any theater in Austin, was #2 in the State of Texas and #22 in the world, according to industry publication Pollstar. Following a national search, Tony Award-winning producer Bob Bursey was appointed Executive Director in January, 2020.

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