Laurie Anderson uses music to reflect people back to themselves, combining humor, wonder, and insight. In her late 70s, she continues to perform with an impish presence while creating tech-savvy musical meditations on topics ranging from the American Dream to Amelia Earhart. Her career includes unusual achievements such as being NASA’s first artist in residence and performing a concert for dogs at the Sydney Opera House. Emerging from a creative scene in lower Manhattan in the early 1970s, she worked across visual arts, theatre, and music, including time around Philip Glass. For a Tiny Desk set, she reduced a seven-piece band to a trio with Martha Mooke and Doug Wieselman, performing songs from Big Science and Amelia alongside excerpts and earlier work.
""The Letter," which follows, is from her latest, Amelia, a moving travelogue following the flight path of the famed pilot. From the desolation of her late husband Lou Reed's "Dirty Blvd.," Anderson shifts to brief moments of beauty a paean to the stars above and a dream of being a dog. SET LIST "Let X=X" "The Letter" "Dirty Blvd." "The Reason I Love the Stars" (excerpt from "Another Day in America") "Dog Show""
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