A song cycle ( German : Liederkreis or Liederzyklus ) is a group, or cycle , of individually complete songs designed to be performed in sequence, as a unit.
125-582: Sufjan Stevens ( / ˈ s uː f j ɑː n / SOOF -yahn ; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nominations. His debut album, A Sun Came , was released in 2000 on the Asthmatic Kitty label, which he co-founded with his stepfather. He received wide recognition for his 2005 album Illinois , which hit number one on
250-430: A contemporary Christian music artist or frequently discuss religion with the press. He told The Village Voice : "I don't think music media is the real forum for theological discussions. I think I've said things and sung about things that probably weren't appropriate for this kind of form. And I just feel like it's not my work or my place to be making claims and statements because I often think it's misunderstood." During
375-509: A "symphonic and cinematic exploration of New York City's infamous Brooklyn–Queens Expressway ", was manifested in a live show. The BQE featured an original film by Stevens (shot in Super 8 film and standard 16 mm), while Stevens and a backing orchestra provided the live soundtrack. The performance used 36 performers which included a small band, a wind and brass ensemble, string players, horn players, and hula hoopers . There were no lyrics to
500-574: A 2004 interview with Adrian Pannett for Comes with a Smile magazine, when asked how important faith was to his music, he said "I don't like talking about that stuff in the public forum because, I think, certain themes and convictions are meant for personal conversation." In a 2006 interview, he said "It's not so much that faith influences us as it lives in us. In every circumstance (giving a speech or tying my shoes), I am living and moving and being." Stevens has resided in Upstate New York near
625-543: A Christmas-themed hip-hop mixtape featuring music from Silver & Gold . As a part of Joyful Noise 's 2013 Flexi Disc Series, Stevens and Cat Martino, of Stranger Cat , recorded the single "Take the Time". Martino has contributed to many of Stevens' past projects, including The Age of Adz . On March 18, 2014, Stevens released the self-titled album, Sisyphus , with Son Lux and rapper Serengeti. On January 12, 2015, Asthmatic Kitty Records announced that Stevens would release
750-551: A Grammy Award but who did contribute to a winning recording. These certificates are known as Participation Certificates or Winners Certificates. Those eligible for a certificate can apply for one in the weeks after the Grammy ceremony. A special Grammy Award of merit is occasionally awarded to recognize "ongoing contributions and influence in the recording field". It has come to be known as the Grammy Legend Award and
875-638: A Hero (1981), Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (1989), Next Year in Jerusalem (1985), and A Year of Birds (1995) by Malcolm Williamson , Maury Yeston 's December Songs (1991), commissioned by Carnegie Hall for its centennial year celebration, Honey and Rue by André Previn (composed for the American soprano Kathleen Battle ). David Conte 's American Death Ballads (2015). Alex Weiser 's song cycle in Yiddish and English, and all
1000-491: A Memory and The Astonishing , as well as Marvin Gaye 's classic soul album What's Going On . The R&B singer Raphael Saadiq 's 2019 album, Jimmy Lee , is composed as a song cycle with personal narratives thematizing issues affecting African Americans, including addiction, stress, domestic conflict, AIDS, perpetual financial hardship, and mass incarceration. One of the earliest song cycle musical theater works
1125-442: A Tonya Harding song since I first saw her skate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1991. She's a complicated subject for a song partly because the hard facts of her life are so strange, disputable, heroic, unprecedented, and indelibly American." Stevens later revealed that the song was offered to the producers to the biographical film I, Tonya , which was released in the same period, but that they decided not to include it in
1250-507: A Walk of Fame star, they realized that many leading people in their business would not earn a star on Hollywood Boulevard . They determined to rectify this by creating awards given by their industry similar to the Oscars and the Emmys . After deciding to go forward with such awards, a question remained what to call them. One working title was the 'Eddie', to honor Thomas Edison , the inventor of
1375-475: A baby together, and were forced to print a retraction. Witmer and Thomas later admitted it was an April Fools' prank. In December 2006, the collaborative recordings were digitally released by Nettwerk as a Rosie Thomas album titled These Friends of Mine . The album was released in physical form on March 13, 2007. On May 31, 2007, Asthmatic Kitty announced that Stevens would be premiering a new project titled The BQE in early November 2007. The project, dubbed
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#17327800406951500-522: A clip of the eponymous skater performing at the 1991 US Figure Skating Championships . Two days later, the single was offered for digital download and streaming, to be followed later by a cassette and vinyl release, in two versions, the one featured in the video (subtitled "in D major") and a piano-only arrangement ("in E♭ major"); in a short essay, Stevens revealed his intention to write a song about Harding since 1991. According to Stevens, "I've been trying to write
1625-449: A collaborative album with his stepfather, Lowell Brams, titled Aporia . In June, Stevens announced his eighth studio album, titled The Ascension , along with the album's lead single " America ", which was released on July 3. The album's second single, "Video Game", was released on August 13, and the third single, "Sugar", was released on September 15. The Ascension was released in full on September 25. On May 6, 2021, Stevens released
1750-485: A combination of solo songs mingled with choral pieces. The number of songs in a song cycle may be as brief as two songs or as long as 30 or more songs. The term "song cycle" did not enter lexicography until 1865, in Arrey von Dommer's edition of Koch’s Musikalisches Lexikon , but works definable in retrospect as song cycles existed long before then. One of the earliest examples may be the set of seven Cantigas de amigo by
1875-503: A demo. In January 2017, it was announced that Stevens would contribute original songs written and recorded by himself for the coming-of-age romantic drama film Call Me by Your Name . The film was released on November 24, 2017, by Sony Pictures Classics . The soundtrack of the film features two new songs and a remix of an existing song by Stevens: "Visions of Gideon", which has been described as containing "lush orchestrations" and "staccato-heavy piano refrains", " Mystery of Love ", which
2000-453: A different film from either the 20th or 21st century. On April 18, 2023, Stevens announced the album Reflections , which contains duo-piano pieces he had written for Houston Ballet. Along with announcing Reflections , Stevens released the album's first track, "Ekstasis", a piece performed by pianists Timo Andres and Conor Hanick . Reflections was released on May 19, 2023, on Asthmatic Kitty Records. On August 14, 2023, Stevens released
2125-405: A five-volume album of meditation music, called Convocations . On July 7, 2021, Stevens announced the release of a collaborative album, called A Beginner's Mind , that he recorded with fellow folk singer-songwriter Angelo De Augustine. On the same day, they unveiled the cover and the first two singles, "Reach Out" and "Olympus". A Beginner's Mind is a concept album, each track being inspired by
2250-422: A leaping-off point for his more personal explorations of faith, family, love, and location. Though slated for release on July 5, 2005, the album was briefly delayed by legal issues regarding the use of an image of Superman in the original album cover artwork. In the double vinyl release, a balloon sticker was placed over Superman on the cover art of the first 5,000 copies. The next printings had an empty space where
2375-406: A live album and concert film, Carrie & Lowell Live was released, featuring new interpretations, re-workings and expansions of the songs from Carrie & Lowell . In addition to the live album, Stevens announced another Carrie & Lowell companion piece, The Greatest Gift , released on November 24. It includes four unreleased songs from the album sessions, as well as several remixes and
2500-460: A manner that preserves the integrity of the academy and their member community. Although registered media companies may submit entries, they have no vote. The eligibility period for the upcoming 66th Annual Grammy Awards is October 1, 2022 – September 15, 2023. The 2024 Grammy Awards , unveiled by Recording Academy chief Harvey Mason Jr., are set to be held on February 4, 2024. In many categories, certificates are presented to those ineligible for
2625-732: A month and ended on November 15, 2010, in New York City. Stevens toured Australia and New Zealand in early 2011, featured as part of the Sydney Festival , and appeared on-stage with The National during the last of three sold-out Auckland shows. He also toured Europe and the United Kingdom in April and May 2011, playing there for the first time in five years. His shows mostly consisted of new material, but he did play many older tracks from Seven Swans and Illinois . Stevens ended
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#17327800406952750-410: A more educated middle class, "who were gradually supplanting the aristocracy as the main patrons of the arts". Since these songs were relatively small-scale works, like the lyric poetry used for their musical settings, they were often published in collections, and consequently borrowed various poetic terms to mark their groupings: Reihe (series), Kranz (ring), Zyklus (cycle) or Kreis (circle). In
2875-550: A new album called Carrie & Lowell . Stevens shared the first single from the album, " No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross ", on February 16, 2015. Carrie & Lowell was released on March 31, 2015. The album garnered critical acclaim upon its release. Stereogum placed the album on its best albums of the decade list in 16th place and described it as "an elegant heartbreaker of an album", while Consequence of Sound ranked it
3000-455: A nomination for the year's Academy Award for Best Original Song . Later in the year, the song received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media . The song was featured in the second season of the Netflix series Sex Education . In December 2017, Stevens released two versions of "Tonya Harding", a song about the figure skater of the same name . The song's video shows
3125-773: A pre-telecast "Premiere Ceremony" in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast. On April 6, 2011, the Recording Academy announced a significant overhaul of many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The number of categories was cut from 109 to 78. The most substantial change was eliminating the distinction between male and female soloists and between collaborations and duo/groups in various genre fields (pop, rock, rhythm and blues [R&B], country, and rap). Additionally, several instrumental soloist categories were discontinued; recordings in these categories now fall under general categories for best solo performances. In
3250-481: A private online listening service. After nominees have been determined, final voting ballots are sent to NARAS voting members, who may then vote in the general field and cast ten votes in various genre categories spread to three of the eleven fields. Members are encouraged, but not required, to vote only in their fields of expertise. Ballots are tabulated secretly by the independent accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu . After vote tabulation, winners are announced at
3375-640: A second set of U.S. tour dates, which took place in October and November 2015, was announced. After Stevens performed new compositions about the solar system alongside composers Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner in Amsterdam in April 2012, it was reported in March 2017 that the three and James McAlister would produce an album. The "80-minute concept album", titled Planetarium , was released in July 2017. On April 28, 2017,
3500-480: A series of songs for names. [...] Each piece was a rhetorical, philosophical, musical rumination on all the possible names I had entertained years before when my parents had given me the one chance to change my own. Oh fates! I sang these songs in the privacy of my dorm room, behind closed doors, pillows and cushions stuffed in the air vents so no one would hear. And then I almost failed Latin class, my grades plummeted, my social life dissolved into ping pong tournaments in
3625-576: A short series of songs that tell a story or focus on a particular theme. Some musicians also blend tracks together, so that the start of the next song continues from the preceding one. Modern examples of this can be found in James Pankow 's rock opera Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon (for Chicago on their self-titled second album ) Pink Floyd 's rock opera The Wall , Dream Theater 's progressive metal albums Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from
3750-481: A snowplow and I forgot all about the problem of names. Until college, when I learned to play the guitar, and, as an exercise, started writing songs (very poorly executed) in the same way that Henry Ford produced the automobile: assembly-line-style. I wrote songs for the days of the week (poor Monday!). Songs for the planets (poor Pluto!). Songs for the Apostles (poor Judas!). And, finally, when all else failed, I started
3875-523: A song cycle—and the Kerner Lieder (Op. 35), a Liederreihe (literally "song row") on poems by Justinus Kerner. Brahms composed settings (Op. 33) of verses from Ludwig Tieck 's novel "Magelone", and modern performances usually include some sort of connecting narration. He also wrote Vier ernste Gesänge ("Four Serious Songs"), Op. 121 (1896). Mahler 's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen , Kindertotenlieder , and Das Lied von der Erde expand
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4000-453: A ten-minute-plus piece titled "Majesty Snowbird". On November 21, 2006, a five CD box set Songs for Christmas was released, which contains originals and Christmas standards recorded every year since 2001 (except 2004). Stevens undertook in the project initially as an exercise to make himself 'appreciate' Christmas more. The songs were the work of an annual collaboration between Stevens and different collaborators, including minister Vito Aiuto;
4125-471: A wide range of arrangements, from orchestral to electronic. Song lengths were also extended; the track "Djohariah" from All Delighted People is 17 minutes long, while "Impossible Soul" from The Age of Adz is 25 minutes long. The albums also feature many styles from disco to folk . Stevens has stated in interviews that in 2009 and 2010 he suffered from a mysterious debilitating virus infection that affected his nervous system. He experienced chronic pain and
4250-526: A work is entered, review sessions are held that involve over 150 recording industry experts, to determine that the work has been entered in the correct category. The resulting lists of eligible entries are then circulated to voting members, each of whom may vote to nominate in the general fields ( Record of the Year , Album of the Year , Song of the Year , and Best New Artist ) and in up to nine out of 30 other fields on their ballots. The five recordings that earn
4375-649: A writing program at The New School for Social Research . During his time at the New School, Stevens developed a preoccupation with the short story form, which he believed would lead him to write a novel, but ultimately returned him to songwriting. While in New York, Stevens composed and recorded the music for his second album, Enjoy Your Rabbit , a song cycle based around the animals of the Chinese zodiac that delved into electronica . Stevens followed this with
4500-454: Is built around two versions of the title track, "All Delighted People". The EP surprisingly rose to No. 27 on the Billboard 200 albums solely through its digital sales. On August 26, Asthmatic Kitty announced that Stevens would release his newest full-length album, The Age of Adz , on October 12. NPR streamed the album until it was released on October 12, 2010. The two albums featured
4625-494: Is known for his frequent use of the banjo , but also plays guitar, piano, drums, woodwind, and several other instruments on his records, layered through the use of multitrack recording . Stevens' work is known to explore themes of love, religion, outer space, and grief. His record label stated that 2010's The Age of Adz featured themes of "love, sex, death, disease, illness, anxiety, and suicide". Despite many of his songs having spiritual allusions, Stevens does not identify as
4750-495: The Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, and for the single " Chicago " from that album. Stevens later contributed to the soundtrack of the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name . He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and a Grammy nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media for the soundtrack's lead single, " Mystery of Love ". Stevens has released albums of varying styles, from
4875-635: The 13th Annual Grammy Awards in 1971. The concept of a separate Grammy Awards for Latin music recorded in Spanish or Portuguese began in 1989, as it was deemed too large to fit on the regular Grammys ceremony. The Recording Academy then established the Latin Recording Academy in 1997, and the separate Latin Grammy Awards were first held in 2000. The Latin Grammys honor works recorded in Spanish or Portuguese from anywhere around
5000-518: The 66th Annual Grammy Awards , set to take place in 2024. Three new categories were announced, bringing the total number to 94, the highest since the peak of 109 in 2010. In addition, both Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical , were moved to the General Field, the first time new categories had been added to this field since the concept of the Big Four
5125-604: The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City, New York, with 28 Grammys awarded. The number of awards given grew, at one time reaching over 100, and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed. The second Grammy Awards , also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, but the ceremony was not aired live until
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5250-504: The Catskill Mountains since 2019. Before this, he lived in New York City for 20 years. He is a Christian. Stevens also stated in 2005 that he attended an Anglo-Catholic Episcopal church. In September 2023, Stevens revealed in a post on Instagram that he had been hospitalized the previous month and diagnosed with Guillain–Barré syndrome . He wrote that he was undergoing physical rehabilitation to relearn how to walk after
5375-691: The Crypto.com Arena (known as the Staples Center from 1999 to 2021) became the permanent home of the award ceremonies. The Grammy Museum was built across the street from the Crypto.com Arena in LA Live to preserve the history of the Grammy Awards. Embedded on the sidewalks on the museum streets are bronze disks, similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame , to honor each year's top winners, Record of
5500-494: The Grammy Living Legend Award at different ceremonies. As of 2018, fourteen solo musicians and one band have received this award. The Grammy Salute to Industry Icons Award honors those who have made innovative contributions to the music industry. Recipients include: Before 1971, Grammy Award ceremonies were held in different locations on the same day. Originally New York City and Los Angeles were
5625-652: The Los Angeles Kings , Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Sparks to play an extended length of road games. With 32 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé is the artist with the most Grammy wins. U2 , with 22 Grammy Awards, holds the record for most awards won by a group. When Pearl Jam won a Grammy for the Best Hard Rock Performance in 1996, the band's lead singer Eddie Vedder commented on stage, "I don't know what this means. I don't think it means anything." In 2008, Glen Hansard , leader of
5750-482: The Tony Awards (for theater). The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards , featuring a total of 94 categories, will be presented on February 2, 2025. After over fifty years being broadcast on CBS , it
5875-530: The debut album from Wu-Tang Clan . The nomination review committees would be disbanded in 2021 following criticism of the lack of nominations for The Weeknd 's album After Hours . At the 38th Annual Grammy Awards , artist Mariah Carey was nominated for six awards for her album Daydream , including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for her single " One Sweet Day ". Although critics believed Carey would be "cleaning up" that year, Carey ultimately lost in all her nominated categories that night, much to
6000-404: The electronica of The Age of Adz and the lo-fi folk of Seven Swans to the symphonic instrumentation of Illinois and Yuletide-themed Songs for Christmas . He employs various instruments, often playing many of them himself on the same recording. Stevens' music is also known for exploring various themes, particularly religion and spirituality. Stevens' tenth studio album, Javelin ,
6125-576: The oboe and the similar English horn , which he plays on his albums. Stevens did not learn to play the guitar until his time at Hope College. Stevens began his musical career as a member of Marzuki, a folk-rock band from Holland, Michigan, as well as garage band Con Los Dudes. He also played (and continues to play) various instruments for Danielson Famile . During his final semester at Hope College , Stevens wrote and recorded his debut solo album, A Sun Came , which he released on Asthmatic Kitty Records. He later moved to New York City, where he enrolled in
6250-446: The phonograph . Eventually, the name was chosen after a mail-in contest whereby approximately 300 contestants submitted the name 'Grammy', with the earliest postmark from contest winner Jay Danna of New Orleans, Louisiana, as an abbreviated reference to Emile Berliner 's invention, the gramophone . Grammys were first awarded for achievements in 1958. The first award ceremony was held simultaneously in two locations on May 4, 1959,
6375-413: The rock field, the hard rock and metal album categories were combined. The Best Rock Instrumental Performance category was also eliminated. In R&B , the distinction between best contemporary R&B album and other R&B albums has been eliminated, consolidated into one Best R&B Album category. In rap , the categories for best rap soloist and best rap duo or group have been merged into
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#17327800406956500-561: The 13th-century Galician jongleur Martin Codax . Jeffrey Mark identified the group of dialect songs 'Hodge und Malkyn' from Thomas Ravenscroft 's The Briefe Discourse (1614) as the first of a number of early 17th-century examples in England. A song cycle is similar to a song collection, and the two can be difficult to distinguish. Some type of coherence , however, is regarded as a necessary attribute of song cycles. It may derive from
6625-515: The 2005 Pantheon prize, awarded to noteworthy albums selling fewer than 500,000 copies, for Illinois . In April 2006, Stevens announced that 21 pieces of music he had culled from the Illinois recording sessions would be incorporated into a new album, called The Avalanche , which was released on July 11, 2006. On September 11, 2006, in Nashville, Tennessee , Stevens debuted a new composition,
6750-627: The 2008 Brendan Gill Prize. In April 2007, in Brooklyn and Philadelphia , Stevens made unannounced appearances on Thomas's tour in support of this album. In 2007, he played shows sporadically, including playing at the Kennedy Center to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Millennium Stage concerts. Stevens has also worked as an essayist, contributing to Asthmatic Kitty Records' "Sidebar" feature and Topic Magazine . He wrote
6875-416: The 43rd best album of the decade, calling it "a special brew that makes even the most intimate personal moment feel parabolic". The album follows the nuances and trials of life with Stevens' mother, Carrie, who was diagnosed bipolar and schizophrenic, was addicted to drugs, and abandoned him when he was a year old; it also includes Stevens' stepfather, Lowell Brams. Stevens also stated that the songwriting for
7000-569: The 50 U.S. states, which he termed the Fifty States Project. Following the release of Michigan , Stevens compiled a collection of songs recorded previously into a side project, the album Seven Swans , which was released in March 2004. Stevens did not leave his job in the children's book division at Time Warner until touring for Seven Swans . Next, he released the second in the Fifty States project, titled Illinois . Among
7125-696: The Age of Adz tour with two shows in Prospect Park, Brooklyn , New York. On February 27, 2012, it was announced Stevens would release a collaborative EP titled Beak & Claw , on March 20, with artists Son Lux and Serengeti under the name S / S / S on the Anticon record label. Stevens released a 7" with close friend Rosie Thomas for Record Store Day 2012, titled Hit & Run Vol. 1 . He also collaborated with choreographer Justin Peck on two ballets for
7250-483: The Best New Artist award in 2009 and her other three awards in 2012 and 2017. At age 18, Eilish is the youngest artist to have won all four awards. As of 2024, an additional two awards were added to the "General Field". Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres and for other contributions such as artwork and video. Special awards are also given for longer-lasting contributions to
7375-738: The COVID-19 Delta cron hybrid variant. The ceremony was also moved from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles to the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas due to the former having scheduling conflicts with sports games and concerts nearly every night through mid-April. The gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone , are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado . In 1990,
7500-644: The French cycle tradition in the later 20th century. Perhaps the first English song cycle was Arthur Sullivan 's The Window; or, The Song of the Wrens (1871), to a text of eleven poems by Tennyson . In the early 20th century, Vaughan Williams composed his famous song cycle, the Songs of Travel . Other song cycles by Vaughan Williams are The House of Life on sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and On Wenlock Edge on poems from A. E. Housman 's A Shropshire Lad ,
7625-541: The Grammy Awards. The recording with the most votes in a category wins, and it is possible to have a tie (in which case the two [or more] nominees who tie are considered winners). Winners are presented with a Grammy Award; those who do not win receive a medal for their nomination. In both voting rounds, Academy members are required to vote solely based on quality, without consideration for sales, chart performance, personal friendships, regional preferences or company loyalty. Gifts may not be accepted. Members are urged to vote in
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#17327800406957750-456: The Irish rock group The Frames , stated that the Grammys represent something outside of the real world of music "that's fully industry based". He said he was not particularly interested in attending that year's ceremony, even though he had been nominated for two awards. Maynard James Keenan , lead singer of progressive rock band Tool , did not attend the Grammy Awards ceremony to receive one of
7875-567: The New York City Ballet: Year of the Rabbit (2012) and Everywhere We Go (2014), both to great critical acclaim. Stevens, along with fellow Brooklyn musicians Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner , began performing their classical project Planetarium , a song-cycle based around the planets in our solar system in countries such as England, The Netherlands, Australia and France from March to July 2012. On October 2, 2012, it
8000-451: The Recording Academy and that voting members are active creative professionals involved in the recording process, such as performers, songwriters, producers, and engineers. Nomination review committees, composed of anonymous industry figures, were established following the 37th Grammy Awards , which attracted criticism for the slate of Album of the Year nominations. The winner, Tony Bennett 's live album MTV Unplugged , competed against
8125-586: The Recording Academy for introducing a policy of charging nominees $ 1200 for a plus one, saying the policy "makes it ever more obvious who is valued, and more specifically what (that would be lots of money, for the folks in the back)." A Billboard article clarified that the new policy was a tiered system, ranging from $ 375 to $ 2000 for a ticket to attend the pre-telecast ceremony. The Grammys also have been criticized for snubbing awards to some nominated artists. The organization's awards journey states that nominees and winners are determined solely by voting members of
8250-1244: The Scottish composer James MacMillan (1997) is a more recent example. Trevor Hold wrote numerous song cycles, including many setting his own words, such as The Image Stays (1979), River Songs (1982) and Book of Beasts (1984). The English composer Robin Holloway 's many song cycles include From High Windows ( Philip Larkin ) (1977), Wherever We May Be ( Robert Graves ) (1980) and Retreats and Advances ( A.S.J. Tessimond ) (2016). His pupil Peter Seabourne 's five song cycles include Sonnets to Orpheus (2016) setting eleven poems of Rainer Maria Rilke . Stephen Hough has written three cycles: Herbstlieder (Rilke) (2007), Dappled Things (Wilde and Hopkins) (2013), and Other Love Songs (2010) for four singers and piano duet. Graham Waterhouse composed several song cycles , based on texts by Shakespeare , James Joyce , and Irish female writers, among others. American examples include Samuel Barber 's Hermit Songs (1953), Mélodies Passagères , and Despite and Still , and Songfest by Leonard Bernstein , Hammarskjöld Portrait (1974), Les Olympiques (1976), Tribute to
8375-601: The Superman image was, as with the CD release. Illinois was widely acclaimed and was the highest-rated album of 2005 on the review aggregator website Metacritic . The 2006 PLUG Independent Music Awards awarded Stevens with the Album of the Year, Best Album Art/Packaging, and Male Artist of the Year. Pitchfork , No Ripcord , and Paste magazine named Illinois as the editors' choice for best album of 2005, and Stevens received
8500-458: The Year, Best New Artist, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. Since 2000, the Grammy Awards have taken place outside of Los Angeles only three times. New York City 's Madison Square Garden hosted the awards in 2003 and in 2018 , while the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas hosted in 2022 . The annual awards ceremony at the Crypto.com Arena requires the local sports teams such as
8625-634: The accompaniment from piano to orchestra. Wolf made the composition of song collections by a single poet something of a specialty, although only the shorter Italian Songbook and Spanish Songbook are performed at a single sitting, and Eisler 's Hollywood Liederbuch also falls into the category of anthology. Das Buch der hängenden Gärten by Schoenberg and Krenek 's Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen are important 20th-century examples. Wilhelm Killmayer composed several song cycles , on lyrics by Sappho , French Renaissance poets, German Romantic poets, and contemporary poets. The tradition
8750-625: The album Michigan , a collection of folk songs and instrumentals. It includes odes to cities including Detroit and Flint , the Upper Peninsula , and vacation areas such as Tahquamenon Falls and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore . Melded into the scenic descriptions and characters are his own declarations of faith, sorrow, love, and the regeneration of Michigan. Beginning with the album, Stevens announced his intent to write an album for each of
8875-576: The album was incited by his process of grieving and coming to terms with his and his mother's relationship following his mother's death due to stomach cancer in 2012. On January 26, 2015, Asthmatic Kitty Records announced a tour of North America, which began in April 2015, to coincide with the new album. Stevens also headlined the End of the Road Festival in the United Kingdom in September. On July 21,
9000-525: The band's awards, explaining that: I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself. That's basically what it's all about. The Grammys have also been criticized for generally awarding or nominating more commercially successful albums rather than critically successful ones. In 1991, Sinéad O'Connor became
9125-480: The coherence within a song cycle must therefore be examined "in individual cases". Although most European countries began developing the art song genre by the beginning of the 19th century, the rise of Lieder in "Austria and Germany have outweighed all others in terms of influence." German-language song composition at the end of 18th century shifted from accessible, Strophic form , more traditional folk songs to 19th century settings of more sophisticated poetry for
9250-525: The communities they serve". Stevens' dedication of Javelin to Richardson was the first time that Stevens had publicly discussed his sexuality. Grammy The Grammy Awards , stylized as GRAMMY , and often referred to as the Grammys , are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry . They are regarded by many as
9375-545: The days were purple (2019), was a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize . Mussorgsky wrote Sunless (1874), The Nursery (1868–72) and Songs and Dances of Death (1875–77), and Shostakovich wrote cycles on English and Yiddish poets, as well as Michelangelo and Alexander Pushkin . In 2020, Rodrigo Ruiz became the first Mexican composer known to have written a song cycle. Ruiz's Venus & Adonis sets Shakespeare's eponymous narrative poem in what became
9500-700: The debut album of Brooklyn-based husband and wife duo Vito and Monique Aiuto, The Welcome Wagon . In February 2009, Stevens contributed "You Are the Blood" to the AIDS benefit album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization . In April 2009, Stevens uploaded a song about director Sofia Coppola online. This song was written while Stevens was in college, from a series of songs about names. Stevens recalled: A few weeks later, our dog got hit by
9625-470: The early 1890s, La chanson d'Ève , premiered complete in 1910, and L'horizon chimérique (1921). Chabrier 's four 'Barnyard songs' (1889) "introduced a new note into contemporary French music" and prefigured Ravel's Histoires naturelles . Poulenc produced a long line of song cycles, from Le Bestiaire (1919), the Poèmes de Ronsard of 1925, Chansons Gaillardes (anonymous 17th-century texts) of
9750-479: The exclusion of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). Therefore, the field and some categories were renamed as Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music. Since 2012, small adjustments have been made to lists of categories and genre fields. The number of categories has risen from 78 in 2012 to 84 since 2017. In 2020, amid the George Floyd protests , several urban, rap, and Latin music categories were renamed. In 2022,
9875-503: The fact that he recently called his fifty-state project a joke, that "I don't really have as much faith in my work as I used to, but I think that's healthy. I think it's allowed me to be less precious about how I work and write. And maybe it's okay for us to take it less seriously." Over the 2005 winter holidays, Stevens recorded an album with Rosie Thomas and Denison Witmer playing banjo and providing vocals. In April 2006, Pitchfork erroneously announced that Stevens and Thomas were having
10000-568: The film. In October 2018, Stevens performed and recorded with indie folk musician Angelo De Augustine a collaborative duo of the latter's "Time" single. On May 29, 2019, Stevens released two new songs, respectively titled "Love Yourself" and "With My Whole Heart", which were released in celebration of Pride Month . Sam Sodomsky of Pitchfork called "With My Whole Heart" "five minutes of unabashed and (relatively) unadorned inspirational soft rock" and "Love Yourself" "similarly glowing". Pride -themed T-shirts designed by Stevens also debuted alongside
10125-625: The first few decades of the 1800s, the collections of poetry and the subsequent song settings took on more underlying coherence and dramatic plot, giving rise to the song cycle. This coherence allowed the song genre to be elevated to a "higher form", serious enough to be compared with symphonies and cycles of lyric piano pieces. Two of the earliest examples of the German song cycle were composed in 1816: Beethoven 's An die ferne Geliebte (Op. 98), and Die Temperamente beim Verluste der Geliebten (J. 200-3, \Op. 46) by Carl Maria von Weber . The genre
10250-463: The first musician to refuse a Grammy, boycotting the ceremony after being nominated for Record of the Year , Best Female Pop Vocal Performance , and Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance . O'Connor would go on to win the latter award. She said her reasoning came from the Grammys' extreme commercialism. In 2024, Rhiannon Giddens described the financial strain of attending the ceremony for middle and working class musicians. She criticized
10375-635: The first song cycle to ever be written entirely to Shakespearean texts. The orchestral song cycle Sing, Poetry on the 2011 album Troika consists of settings of Vladimir Nabokov 's Russian and English-language poetry by three Russian and three American composers. Cycles in other languages have been written by Granados , Mohammed Fairouz , Cristiano Melli, Falla , Juan María Solare , Grieg , Lorenzo Ferrero , Dvořák , Janáček , Bartók , Kodály , Sibelius , Rautavaara , Peter Schat , Mompou , Montsalvatge , and A. Saygun etc. Song cycles written by popular musicians (also called rock operas ) are
10500-508: The following year, Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire (1931), Tel jour telle nuit (poems by Paul Éluard ), 1937, Banalités (poems by Apollinaire, 1940), to his last, La Courte Paille (1960) - seven songs in eight minutes. Poèmes pour Mi , Chants de Terre et de Ciel and Harawi by Messiaen , Paroles tissées and Chantefleurs et Chantefables by Lutosławski (only an honorary Frenchman) as well as Correspondances and Le temps l'horloge by Dutilleux continued
10625-850: The head of Stevens' record label Asthmatic Kitty ). Stevens is of Lithuanian and Greek descent. Sufjan is a name of Arabic or Persian origin. The name was given to Stevens by the founder of Subud , an interfaith spiritual community to which his parents belonged when he was born. Stevens attended the Detroit Waldorf School , Alanson Public Schools and Interlochen Arts Academy , and he graduated from Harbor Light Christian School. He then attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan , where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa . He then earned an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in New York City. While in school, Stevens studied
10750-693: The host cities. Chicago joined as a host city in 1962 and Nashville became a fourth location in 1965. The 1971 ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles was the first to take place in one location. In 1972, the ceremony was then moved to Madison Square Garden 's Felt Forum in New York City, then moved in 1973 to Nashville's Tennessee Theatre . From 1974 to 2003, the Grammys were held in various venues in New York City and Los Angeles, including New York's Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall ; and Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium , Staples Center and Hollywood Palladium. In 2000,
10875-622: The illness. In October 2023, Stevens dedicated his new album Javelin to his partner Evans Richardson, who died in April of the same year. Richardson had served as the chief of staff at the Studio Museum in Harlem , which is dedicated to showcasing the work of black artists ; in 2021 he had also been elected as chair of the accreditation commission for the American Alliance of Museums , with "a focus on diversity and access for
11000-655: The introduction to the 2007 edition of The Best American Nonrequired Reading , a short story about his early childhood education and learning to read titled How I Trumped Rudolf Steiner and Overcame the Tribulations of Illiteracy, One Snickers Bar at a Time . That winter, he hosted an "Xmas Song Exchange Contest" in which winner Alec Duffy won exclusive rights to the original Stevens song "Lonely Man of Winter". The track could only be heard by attending private listening parties at Duffy's home in Brooklyn and at places around
11125-525: The latter originally for voice with piano and string quartet but later orchestrated. The composer and renowned Lieder accompanist Benjamin Britten also wrote song cycles, including The Holy Sonnets of John Donne , Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo , Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente , and Winter Words , all with piano accompaniment, and the orchestral Les Illuminations , Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings , and Nocturne . Raising Sparks (1977) by
11250-494: The live classical album The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 , Seal 's second eponymous album , and the twelfth albums from Bonnie Raitt and Eric Clapton , both longtime musical mainstays. Not nominated that year were several albums that would later be recognized as classics, including Nas 's debut album Illmatic , Oasis 's debut album Definitely Maybe , Hole 's album Live Through This , Jeff Buckley 's Grace , and
11375-636: The lyrics of the original, as Stevens has taken his own interpretation on the melody and arrangement. His rendition of " The Star-Spangled Banner " has a similar rearranged melody and arrangement as well as a whole new verse. His songs "The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders" and "All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands" were featured in the 2006 British comedy-drama Driving Lessons , starring Julie Walters and Rupert Grint . In 2008, he produced Welcome to The Welcome Wagon ,
11500-670: The most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry worldwide. They were originally called the Gramophone Awards , as the trophy depicts a gilded gramophone . The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks ' major music awards held annually, and are considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards with the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and
11625-532: The most votes in each category become the nominees, while in some categories (craft and specialized categories) review committees determine the final five nominees. There may be over five nominees if a tie occurs in the nomination process. Although members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences generally are invited to screenings or are sent DVDs of films nominated for Oscars, NARAS members do not receive nominated recordings, but instead receive access to
11750-463: The music industry. Because of the large number of award categories (94 as of 2024), and a desire to feature several performances by various artists, only awards with the most popular interest – typically about 10 to 12, including the four general field categories and one or two categories in the most popular music genres (i.e., pop, rock, country, and rap) – are presented directly at the televised award ceremony. Most other Grammy trophies are presented in
11875-551: The music. The BQE was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of their Next Wave Festival and performed on three consecutive nights from November 1–3, 2007. The performance sold out the 2,109 seat BAM Opera House without any advertising. After three weeks of rehearsing the piece with the three dozen musicians involved, he presented the 30-minute composition. The BQE was followed by an additional one hour of concert by Stevens and his orchestra. The BQE won
12000-477: The new Best Rap Performance category. The roots category had the most eliminations. Up through 2011, there were separate categories for regional American music forms, such as Hawaiian, Native American, and Zydeco/Cajun music. A consistently low number of entries in these categories led the Recording Academy to combine these music variations into a new Best Regional Roots Music Album , including polka , which had lost its category in 2009. In same-genre fields,
12125-456: The number of awards was increased from 86 to 91. Performance categories were added for the Americana and alternative music genres alongside new categories for video game score and spoken word poetry albums. A songwriter category (non-classical) and a song for social change category were also added and several categories were adjusted slightly. In 2023, several key changed were announced for
12250-687: The original Grammy design was reworked, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, making the trophy bigger and grander. Billings developed Grammium, a zinc alloy which they trademarked. Trophies engraved with each recipient's name are not available until after the award announcements, so "stunt" trophies are re-used each year for the ceremony broadcast. By February 2009, some 7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded. The "General Field" are four awards which are not restricted by music genre. To date, three artists have won all four awards, two won all four at once: Christopher Cross (1981) and Billie Eilish (2020). Adele won
12375-559: The past" and out of touch with "new media" and trends among music listeners such as music sharing , stating: The major nominations for the 54th annual awards clearly show that the recording academy has been working overtime to be all-inclusive, but more significantly, they also reveal a deep chasm between its goals and the listening habits of the general population...The focus is still on the old music industry model of cash-cow hits, major label investments and commercial radio... In an article for Time , journalist Touré also responded to
12500-501: The release of High Violet , band frontman Matt Berninger mentioned that Stevens was recording a new album in the band's studio and that The National would appear on some of the tracks. In early August, Stevens announced North American tour dates across dozens of cities. On August 20, 2010, Stevens suddenly and unexpectedly released a new collection of tracks, the All Delighted People EP, for digital download. The EP
12625-436: The residence halls, and, gradually, my interest in music (or anything divine, creative, fruitful, enriching) completely waned. I turned to beer. And cigarettes. And TV sitcoms. And candy bars. Oh well! A perfectly good youth wasted on junk food! That is, until a few months ago, when I came across some of the old name songs, stuffed onto tape cassettes, 4-track recorders, forgotten boxes, forgotten shelves, forgotten hard drives. It
12750-420: The shock of critics and Carey herself. In 2011, Los Angeles Times journalist Randall Roberts criticized the exclusion of Kanye West 's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy from Album of the Year nominations for the 54th Grammy Awards . He described West's album as "the most critically acclaimed album of the year, a career-defining record". Roberts went on to criticize the Grammy Awards for being "mired in
12875-494: The single "So You Are Tired", alongside an announcement for an album to be released in October 2023, titled Javelin . The record is described as his first "singer-songwriter" album since 2015's Carrie & Lowell . The album includes contributions from Adrienne Maree Brown, Hannah Cohen, Pauline Delassus, Megan Lui, and Nedelle Torrisi, as well as the National's Bryce Dessner , who contributed acoustic and electric guitar for
13000-615: The singles. He later stated that a portion of the song and shirts' proceeds would go to the Ali Forney Center in Brooklyn and the Ruth Ellis Center in Detroit, two organizations which aim to help LGBT youth. In October 2019, Stevens released an album titled The Decalogue with pianist Timo Andres . It is based on a ballet of the same name by Justin Peck, composed by Stevens. On March 24, 2020, Stevens released
13125-525: The snub and expressed general displeasure with the awards, stating "I don't pretend to understand the Grammys. I have never been able to discern a consistent logic around who gets nominated or who gets statues. I comprehend the particular logic of the Oscars, but not the big awards for music. My normal state of confusion around what drives Grammy decisions was exponentialized this week when, to the shock of many, Kanye's masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
13250-449: The songs themselves were distributed to friends and family. Although Stevens' subsequent work was sometimes speculated to tie into future "States" projects, and Stevens himself would make occasional statements alluding to the future of the project, Stevens later admitted that the project had been a "promotional gimmick" and not one he had seriously intended to complete. In November 2009, Stevens admitted to Exclaim! magazine, in regard to
13375-452: The subjects explored on Illinois are the cities of Chicago, Decatur and Jacksonville ; the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the death of a friend on Casimir Pulaski Day , the poet Carl Sandburg , and the serial killer John Wayne Gacy . Stevens had spent the second half of 2004 researching and writing material for the album. As with Michigan , Stevens used the state of Illinois as
13500-425: The text (a single poet; a story line; a central theme or topic such as love or nature; a unifying mood; poetic form or genre, as in a sonnet or ballad cycle) or from musical procedures (tonal schemes; recurring motifs, passages or entire songs; formal structures). These unifying features may appear singly or in combination. Because of these many variations, the song cycle "resists definition". The nature and quality of
13625-399: The track "Shit Talk". On January 28, 2024, the musical Illinoise debuted at Chicago Shakespeare Theater . Based on the album Illinois in its entirety, and with additional music & lyrics contributed by Stevens, it was directed & choreographed by Justin Peck , who discussed the project with Stevens on and off for several years before they agreed to move forward with it. The story
13750-428: The traditional and contemporary blues categories and the traditional and contemporary folk categories each were consolidated into one per genre due to the number of entries and the challenges in distinguishing between contemporary and traditional blues and folk songs. In the world music field, the traditional and contemporary categories also were merged. In the classical field, its main category Best Classical Album ,
13875-564: The world that has been released either in Ibero-America , the Iberian Peninsula , or the United States. The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards were postponed from its original January 31, 2021, date to March 14, 2021, due to the music industry impact of COVID-19 pandemic . The 64th Annual Grammy Awards were also postponed from its original January 31, 2022, date to April 3, 2022, due to health and safety concerns related to
14000-1387: The world until 2018, when Duffy negotiated with Asthmatic Kitty Records to release the song with all proceeds going towards Duffy's organization JACK. Stevens has contributed to the music of Denison Witmer, Soul-Junk , Half-handed Cloud , Brother Danielson , Danielson Famile, Serena-Maneesh , Castanets , Will Stratton , Shannon Stephens , Clare & the Reasons , Little Scream, and Liz Janes . In 2007 alone, Stevens played piano on The National 's album Boxer , produced and contributed many instrumental tracks to Rosie Thomas's album These Friends of Mine , multiple instruments on Ben + Vesper 's album All This Could Kill You and oboe and vocals to David Garland 's 2007 album Noise in You . He has contributed covers of Tim Buckley ("She Is"), Joni Mitchell (" Free Man in Paris "), Daniel Johnston ("Worried Shoes"), John Fahey ("Variation on 'Commemorative Transfiguration & Communion at Magruder Park"), The Innocence Mission ("The Lakes of Canada"), Bob Dylan ("Ring Them Bells"), Drake ("Hotline Bling"), Prince ("Kiss") and The Beatles ("What Goes On") to various tribute albums. His versions of "Free Man in Paris" and "What Goes On" are notable for only retaining
14125-504: Was announced on October 30, 2024, that the Grammys would move to ABC , Disney+ and Hulu as part of a ten-year broadcast deal between the Recording Academy and The Walt Disney Company . Harry's House Midnights The Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. As recording executives on the Walk of Fame committee compiled a list of significant recording industry people who might qualify for
14250-604: Was announced that Stevens would release a second set of Christmas albums, titled Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6–10 , on November 13, 2012. Silver & Gold contains 58 songs, allowing for a total of 100 when combined with his first set of Christmas albums, Songs for Christmas . To support this new release, Stevens performed in 24 cities around the United States for his 2012 tour titled "The Sirfjam Stephanapolous Christmas Sing-a-Long Seasonal Affective Disorder Spectacular Music Pageant Variety Show Disaster". On December 11, 2012, Stevens released Chopped and Scrooged ,
14375-504: Was carried on by Wolfgang Rihm , with cycles such as Reminiszenz (2017). Graham Waterhouse composed song cycles including Sechs späteste Lieder after Hölderlin 's late poems in 2003. The six songs of Berlioz 's Les nuits d'été (1841), first published with piano accompaniment but later orchestrated, is a notable early example of the French song cycle. French cycles reached a pinnacle in Fauré 's La bonne chanson (Verlaine) of
14500-500: Was discontinued because most recipients in the category had also won in other classical categories for the same album. Classical recordings are now eligible for the main Album of the Year category. A few minor name changes were also made to better reflect the nature of the separate categories. The Recording Academy determined that the word "gospel" in the gospel genre field tends to connote images and sounds of traditional soul gospel to
14625-540: Was established. The total number of fields was consolidated from 26 to 11 to ensure that all voting members would be able to exercise their allocated ten genre votes, as some members were prevented from doing so previously due to some fields only containing one category. Members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), both media companies and individuals, may nominate recordings for consideration. Entries are made and submitted online. When
14750-420: Was featured in the film's trailer as well as the film itself, and an "ethereal piano arrangement" of The Age of Adz track "Futile Devices". In his review of the film, Consequence of Sound writer Dominick Suzanne-Mayer praised Stevens' work as a composer on the film, noting that he "has a perfect ear for the film's portrayal of a summer that's getting shorter by the day." In January 2018, "Mystery of Love" earned
14875-563: Was firmly established by the cycles of Schubert ; his Die schöne Müllerin (1823) and Winterreise (1827), settings of poems by Wilhelm Müller , are among his most greatly admired works. Schubert's Schwanengesang (1828), though collected posthumously, is also frequently performed as a cycle. Schumann 's great cycles were all composed in 1840. They comprise Dichterliebe , Frauenliebe und -leben , two collections entitled Liederkreis ( Opp. 24 & 39 on texts by Heinrich Heine and Eichendorf respectively)—a German word meaning
15000-510: Was forced to stop working on music for several months. He said: " The Age of Adz , is, in some ways, a result of that process of working through health issues and getting much more in touch with my physical self. That's why I think the record's really obsessed with sensation and has a hysterical melodrama to it." On October 12, 2010, Stevens began his North American tour in Montreal , featuring virtually all new material. The tour lasted just over
15125-428: Was like finding an old diary, or a high school yearbook, senior picture with lens flare and pockmarks, slightly cute and embarrassing. What was I thinking? In September 2009, Stevens began performing four new songs while on his fall tour, "All Delighted People", "Impossible Soul", "Too Much" and "Age of Adz". That year Stevens contributed to an album with his stepfather, Lowell Brams, titled Music for Insomnia . The album
15250-410: Was not nominated for a Grammy for Album of the Year." He went on to compare understanding the Grammy Awards to Kremlinology and commented on The Recording Academy's exclusion of more "mature" hip hop albums as Album of the Year nominees, noting that it occasionally opts to nominate "pop-friendly" hip hop albums instead. Song cycle The songs are either for solo voice or an ensemble, or rarely
15375-606: Was released December 8, 2009. On October 6, 2009, Stevens' label, Asthmatic Kitty Records, released an album of versions of his 2001 album Enjoy Your Rabbit rearranged for strings and performed by the Osso String Quartet, titled Run Rabbit Run . In 2010, Stevens was featured on The National's album High Violet , released in May, and sang backing vocals for the band on the Late Show with David Letterman . Following
15500-521: Was released in October 2023. Stevens was born in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of nine, when his family moved to Alanson, Michigan , in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan . He was raised by his father, Rasjid, and his stepmother, Pat, only occasionally visiting his mother, Carrie, in Oregon after she married her second husband, Lowell Brams (who later became
15625-763: Was written by Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury . On March 19, it was announced that the show would transfer to the St. James Theatre on Broadway for a limited time from April 24 until August 10. This production received four nominations at the 77th Tony Awards , including Best Musical , Best Lighting Design of a Musical for Brandon Stirling Baker , and Best Orchestrations for Timo Andres, ultimately winning one for Best Choreography for Peck. Stevens' sound has been most generally associated with genres such as indie folk , alternative rock , indie rock , indie pop , baroque pop , chamber pop , folk pop , avant-garde folk, lo-fi folk, and electronica. A multi-instrumentalist, Stevens
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