Minimalist

The Cedar and Kate Nordstrum Projects presents Brooklyn Rider in collaboration with Stillwater Music Festival. An all Philip Glass program featuring the Minnesota premiere of Suite for String Quartet from Bent.

Brooklyn Rider's most recent recording, Brooklyn Rider plays Philip Glass (released in 2011 on the composer's label, Orange Mountain Music), includes the 5 string quartets of Philip Glass plus the world premiere recording of Suite for String Quartet from "Bent." Referring to Brooklyn Rider’s recording of the 3rd String quartet, The Huffington Post raved: “Brooklyn Rider's interpretation of Glass's tense, melancholic vision is a cathartic and delicate masterpiece.” The evening will present a selection of these works in the intimate environment of The Cedar, including the MN premiere of the Suite from "Bent." Read more »

"Throughout the decade of the 2000s, the Claudia Quintet recorded, toured, and became one of the top five progressive jazz units in the U.S. and the world. For 2010 they continue with Royal Toast [Cuneiform Records], implying elegance and a golden brown, perfectly prepared, even buttery music. ... It's another extraordinary musical experience from the Claudia Quintet, who deserve all the high marks they receive as an innovative, thought-provoking, singularly unique contemporary ensemble." – All Music Guide

"...one of the most characterful small jazz groups of recent times." – The Guardian

"The references span from surf rock, to chamber jazz to hyperarticulate “acoustica” club beats, all rendered with exquisite precision and heedless abandon...there are too many moments of brilliance to list here..." –  JazzTimes

Home for the holidays? Take a break with this perfect holiday weekend show, and let yourself enter the breathtakingly beautiful, minimalistic soundscapes of Low. Opening tonight will be one of this year's breakthrough successes, Jeremy Messersmith, long a local fave in the Twin Cities, but now seeing national attention on the many strengths of his deadly latest release The Reluctant Graveyard.

Tickets are on sale now from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), from hard-working Cedar volunteers in the front lobby during shows, from Cedar outlets (Electric Fetus, Irish on Grand, Homestead Pickin' Parlor, and Depth of Field), and online at Ticketweb.

All Cedar shows are all ages. Students with ID may gain discounted admission for tickets purchased at the door.