Source Code: Music She Wrote
Milton Community Concerts
On Sunday, May 18th at 3pm Milton Community Concerts presents the final concert of its tenth anniversary season, a FREE concert featuring the Boston Public Quartet and guest flutist DeShaun Gordon King/Diji Kay. This program is called “Source Code: Music She Wrote” and will include the music of five landmark women composers from the late romantic period to the present. As a gift to the community this event for the entire family is offered with free admission (come early for best seating). It will take place at the historic Meetinghouse of First Parish of Milton-UU, 535 Canton Avenue.
The Boston Public Quartet was founded in 2007 and is dedicated to normalizing the amplification of historically excluded voices in classical music, both musicians and composers. Equally at home performing on a street corner in Mattapan Square, the Kennedy Center in D.C., or the Harvard Musical Association in Boston, the BPQ was created to connect, inspire, and innovate as an ensemble-in-residence in Boston’s diverse neighborhoods.
The Boston Public Quartet includes violinists Betsy Hinkle and Grant Houston, violist Jason Amos, and cellist Nicholas Johnson. Each is an outstanding soloist in their own right. They will be joined by guest flutist DeShaun Gordon King/Diji Kay, who has performed as a soloist and principal flute throughout Europe, Asia, and the U.S. He grew up surrounded by griot traditions, jazz and gospel music. He has collaborated with Castle of Our Skins, the Celebrity Series of Boston, the American Repertory Theatre, and Shelter Music Boston.
The composers on this diverse program include Boston’s own Florence Price and Amy Beach, Jamaican-British composer Eleanor Alberga OBE, Felix’s (more talented?) older sister Fanny Mendelssohn, and Grammy winner and close friend to the group, Jessie Montgomery. The title of the program is drawn from the quartet “Source Code” by Jessie Montgomery, which channels Alvin Ailey, Langston Hughes, and Ella Fitzgerald, and invites the audience to take a journey with each piece on the program to decode the sources which are embedded within the experience.
This concert is partially funded by a generous grant from the Milton Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as many individual donors who support MCC and BPQ.
The Boston Public Quartet was founded in 2007 and is dedicated to normalizing the amplification of historically excluded voices in classical music, both musicians and composers. Equally at home performing on a street corner in Mattapan Square, the Kennedy Center in D.C., or the Harvard Musical Association in Boston, the BPQ was created to connect, inspire, and innovate as an ensemble-in-residence in Boston’s diverse neighborhoods.
The Boston Public Quartet includes violinists Betsy Hinkle and Grant Houston, violist Jason Amos, and cellist Nicholas Johnson. Each is an outstanding soloist in their own right. They will be joined by guest flutist DeShaun Gordon King/Diji Kay, who has performed as a soloist and principal flute throughout Europe, Asia, and the U.S. He grew up surrounded by griot traditions, jazz and gospel music. He has collaborated with Castle of Our Skins, the Celebrity Series of Boston, the American Repertory Theatre, and Shelter Music Boston.
The composers on this diverse program include Boston’s own Florence Price and Amy Beach, Jamaican-British composer Eleanor Alberga OBE, Felix’s (more talented?) older sister Fanny Mendelssohn, and Grammy winner and close friend to the group, Jessie Montgomery. The title of the program is drawn from the quartet “Source Code” by Jessie Montgomery, which channels Alvin Ailey, Langston Hughes, and Ella Fitzgerald, and invites the audience to take a journey with each piece on the program to decode the sources which are embedded within the experience.
This concert is partially funded by a generous grant from the Milton Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as many individual donors who support MCC and BPQ.
For more information visit
https://www.miltoncommunityconcerts.com/sourcecode, 3:00 pm
Milton Community Concerts
535 Canton Avenue
Milton, MA 02186
United States
Type:
Recital & Concert