The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and the AT&T Performing Arts Center today announced a performance by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter St. Vincent during the inaugural SOLUNA: International Music & Arts Festival. St. Vincent will perform on Sunday, May 17th at 8:30 p.m. with musicians of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on The Shannon and Ted Skokos Pavilion at the Center’s outdoor venue, Annette Strauss Square. The co-presentation is a collaboration between the Dallas Symphony and the Center.
“We are thrilled to welcome St. Vincent to SOLUNA and in performance with DSO musicians,” said Jonathan Martin, Dallas Symphony Orchestra President and CEO. “She continues to surprise and excite her fans with each new album, and she represents the future of music and art. It is this genre-bending, boundary-breaking creativity that embodies the spirit of SOLUNA, and we are proud to present her in Dallas in collaboration with the Center.”
“The creation of the SOLUNA festival is a landmark development for the Dallas Arts District and our city,” said Doug Curtis, President and CEO of the nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center. “We have enjoyed working with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to make this unique and exciting addition to an already impressive lineup of performances.”
Tickets are $35.00 Standing Room/General Admission. This concert will NOT be BYOB. Tickets will go on sale to the public on April 2nd at 10 a.m. They will be available online through www.attpac.org or by phone at 214-880-0202. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Box Office in the Information Center on the Center’s campus.
Tickets go on sale to members of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the Dallas Symphony on Wednesday, March 25th. Call the Center’s Membership Services at 214-978-2888 or Rebecca Campbell Watkins at the DSO at 214-871-4071 for more information.
St. Vincent (Annie Clark) has been moving at a breakneck speed for the past two years, barely stopping to catch her breath amidst a whirlwind of recording and touring. In 2011 she released her third album, ‘Strange Mercy,’ called “one of the year’s best” by The New York Times and “something to behold” by Pitchfork. The record cemented her status as one of her generation’s most fearsome and inventive guitarists, earned her the covers of SPIN, Paper, and Under the Radar, performances everywhere from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fallon to Conan, and a year-long sold-out tour of her biggest venues to date around the world. It was during this already monumentally busy time that she completed work with David Byrne on their collaborative album ‘Love This Giant,’ another critical smash that was dubbed “marvelous” by the New Yorker and “magical” by NPR.
A short break transitioned her to songwriting for her latest album, St. Vincent. Those songs turned into her most lyrically sophisticated and musically diverse collection to date, meshing distorted, aggressive electric guitars and bold vocal and synthesizer arrangements on top of a relentless rhythm section. She has performed music from the album on shows from Letterman to the season finale of Saturday Night Live, and The Guardian named St. Vincent their “No. 1 Album of the Year”. In February, St. Vincent won the Grammy for Best Alternative Album.
Music and videos by St. Vincent can be found on her official website at www.ilovestvincent.com.
The collaboration between the Dallas Symphony, the Center and the DSO’s SOLUNA Festival is an outgrowth of the Performing Arts Collaboration Initiative, a collective of five major performing arts institutions working to reduce costs and improve artistic experiences through collaboration. The participating organizations include the AT&T Performing Arts Center, The Dallas Opera, Dallas Summer Musicals, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Theater Center – with support from AT&T and the City of Dallas.
