American Music Project concert
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Description
Hear the American Music Project program that The New York Times called "a fascinating concert."
This AMP event will feature the JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, in the Chicago premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's Clarinet Quintet. The second commission by the Chicago-based foundation, the Clarinet Quintet was described by the New York Times as "darkly seductive" and "a colorful and atmospheric journey" at its world premiere in November.
The program will also feature JACK performing John Luther Adams' haunting "The Wind in High Places" and two contrasted homegrown works of the 20th century: Earle Brown's 1965 String Quartet and John Cage's early String Quartet in Four Parts.