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Inuksuit: University of South Carolina
Mar 29 2025
16:00
The Horseshoe
Columbia, USA
Cost: Free
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ABOUT THIS EVENT

A multitude of percussionists (or as close as we can get!) help close the School of Music’s 100th anniversary season outdoors on the Horseshoe.

Adams’ monumental Inuksuit, intended to be performed and experienced outdoors, creates an enormous sonic landscape, both intimate and overpowering, that is unique to each performance and performance site. In Inuksuit, inspired and shaped by the stone sentinels constructed over centuries by the Inuit people as waypoints in the expanse of the Arctic, the listener is free to shape their own experience: audience members may bring a blanket, a lawn chair or wander throughout the performance area.

Co-produced by Boston-based percussionist Maria Finkelmeier, professor Scott Herring & the USC percussion studio and Southern Exposure.



THE VENUE

The Horseshoe

Columbia, 29208
USA


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Website: https://sc.edu/about/our_history/university_history/historic_horseshoe/index.php


His music perfectly echoes the landscape he loves: impersonal, relentless, larger than human scale, yet gorgeous, a quiet chaos of colors, suffused with light. It’s not a climate everyone could live in. But for those who want to bathe their ears in an aural aurora borealis while staying warm inside, it’s a spiritual odyssey well worth taking. - Kyle Gann
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