Harlem Quartet

Rush Hour Music in Gilbert Court
Live music returns to the Morgan with a summer series of rush hour concerts in Gilbert Court featuring three extraordinary string quartets performing works ranging from Franz Joseph Haydn to Wynton Marsalis. All concerts last approximately one hour with a limited audience.

Rush Hour Music in Gilbert Court is made possible by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky.

Harlem Quartet
New York-based Harlem Quartet has been praised for its “panache” by The New York Times and hailed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent.” Their program illustrates the cross-pollination of musical ideas between the European classical tradition, Jazz, and World Music.

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, String Quartet Concertante No. 5 in G Major (1777)
William Grant Still, Lyric Quartette (1960)
Jessie Montgomery, Strum (2006; revised in 2012)
Guido Lopez-Gavilan, Guaguanco (2005; arranged for string quartet in 2016)
Adonis G. Matos, Fugato (2021)
George Walker, String Quartet No. 1, Molto Adagio, “Lyric for Strings” (1946)
Wynton Marsalis, At the Octaroon Balls: “Rampart Street Rowhouse Rag”; “Creole Contradanzas”; “Hellbound Highball” (1995)

See program (PDF)

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