Collaboration with Robin Wall Kimmerer to be premiered by Jupiter String Quartet

Singing Land, a new collaboration between Su Lian Tan and Potawatomi botanist/writer Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants), will receive its World Premiere on January 26, performed by the acclaimed Jupiter String Quartet at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

The new work is described by its collaborators as “a new garden of sound, recalling ancient and modern voices and the mysticism of string instruments, voices of bullfrogs, and hawks who cry warnings. The circle of life continues and we create a world that is both spiritual and material. Text becomes music, music weaves the lushness of greenery and the breath exchanging on our planet, perhaps with the required urgency. Are we now in the aubade or the twilight? We CAN love the earth back to wholeness.”  

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the Krannert Center’s website here.