PUBLIQuartet brings their program "What is American" to the next New Lens at 21c Museum Hotel on November 3rd at 7pm. The New York City-based string quartet's program "explores the resonance between contemporary, blues, jazz, free and rock-inflected music - all of which trace their roots back to the Black and Indigenous music that inspired Dvořák’s “American” String Quartet." They'll improvise within the Czech composer's opus 96 (written while living in the US), improvise on tunes from Fats Waller and Ornette Coleman, and play Vijay Iyer's "Dig the Say" from 2012.
This concert will open with Young Artist Showcase winner Johnny Wagner, who will play saxophone, accompanied by his father Craig Wagner on guitar.
New Lens is free and open-to-the-public. There is limited, reserved seating for members. For questions about reserved seating call 502-814-6565 or email membership@lpm.org.
