PUBLIQuartet—Rhythm Nation

“A perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music.” —Washington Post

Winner of the 2019 Chamber Music America Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music, PUBLIQuartet celebrates American rhythmic traditions with Rhythm Nation.

The concert is anchored by PUBLIQuartet’s 2021 work, MIND | THE | GAP: Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues, which features improvisations on “Black Coffee” by Tina Turner, “They Say I’m Different” by Betty Davis, “ErRa” by Alice Coltrane, and “Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues” by Ida Cox. The concert also includes Vijay Iyer’s 2012 string quartet Dig the Say — a four-movement homage to the music of James Brown.