PUBLIQuartet presents What is American: Found Futures in its Chamber Music Pittsburgh debut. This groundbreaking program blurs the boundaries between improvisation and composition, Afrofuturism and contemporary classical performance, perceived past and imagined future.
With works by Henry Threadgill, George Lewis, Vijay Iyer, and members of PUBLIQuartet, interspersed with reinterpretations of music by Julia Perry, Duke Ellington, and Sun Ra, this concert envisions a future for American classical music rooted in a spirit of now-ness.