THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2022

First Presbyterian Church
509 Pearl Ave, Joplin, MO 64801

7:00 PM

Join us for an evening with the dynamic, GRAMMY-nominated PUBLIQuartet! An ensemble that blends the classical idiom of the string quartet with the contemporary sounds of jazz, folk, rock, electronica, and improvisation, this innovative quartet will inspire our audiences with their creative and virtuosic performance!

The Program

Dig the Say (2012)                                                                                                      Vijay Iyer (b. 1971)
I. carry the ball
IIa. this thing together
IIb. up from the ground
III. to live tomorrow

PUBLIQuartet – MIND | THE | GAP: Pavement Pounding Rose (2019)
Improvisations on Fats Waller’s “Honeysuckle Rose”

CARDS 11-11-2020 (2020)                                                                                  Roscoe Mitchell (b. 1940)

PUBLIQuartet – MIND | THE | GAP: What Is American? (2016)
Improvisations on Antonin Dvorak’s “American” Quartet, Op. 96

At the Purchaser’s Option (2021)                                                                   Rhiannon Giddens (b. 1977), arr. PUBLIQuartet

PUBLIQuartet – MIND | THE | GAP: Free Radicals (2021)
Improvisations on “Law Years” and “Street Woman” by Ornette Coleman

PUBLIQuartet – MIND | THE | GAP: Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues (2021)
Improvisations on music by Tina Turner, Betty Davis, Alice Coltrane, and Ida Cox

PUBLIQuartet is represented by Concert Artists Guild