Chamber Music America Presents:
Jen Shyu + Jade Tongue, Del Sol String Quartet, Greg Lewis Organ Monk Quintet
About the Event
Monday, May 2nd 7pm
Hosted by Jeffrey Zeigler
Celebrate National Chamber Music Month with this free kick-off party, featuring performances by three highly acclaimed and distinctive small ensembles: the “lyrical and wildly adventurous” Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue (The Nation); San Francisco’s “high spirited” and “dynamic” Del Sol String Quartet (NYTimes); and the ecstatic jazz organ of the Greg Lewis Organ Monk Quintet. Hear selections from recent CMA commissions—including a new work by Mason Bates, Shyu’s lauded Song of Silver Geese, and Lewis’s stirring and revelatory tribute to Michael Brown and Eric Garner—and stay for drinks and celebration.
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The characters for Neó ?? can be interpreted as the "beginning of sound" or even "unified sound". Appropriately, Neó also sounds like neo, suggesting an innovative approach to these ancient instruments.
With special guest Alicia Hall Moran.
The characters for Neó ?? can be interpreted as the "beginning of sound" or even "unified sound". Appropriately, Neó also sounds like neo, suggesting an innovative approach to these ancient instruments.
With special guest Alicia Hall Moran.
