Playing Out is a showcase of liberated creativity, defying definition and building new musical lexicons through the intersection of experimental jazz, improvisation, and electroacoustic music. The program features the New York premiere of an ecstatic new quartet by George Lewis (Fromm Foundation commission), as well as mesmeric numbers by Katherine Young and Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mead Composer-in-Residence Samuel Adams. For its National Sawdust debut, Spektral Quartet is joined by flute maven Claire Chase for Anthony Cheung’s jazz-infiltrated “Real Book of Fake Tunes” (also commissioned by Fromm). Playing Out offers the prodigious possibilities that form when artistic streams of free improvisation and classical composition merge.

PROGRAM
George Lewis – String Quartet 1.5 "Experiments in Living" (2016)
Arthur Russell arr. Katherine Young – I'm Hiding Your Present From You (2013)
Samuel Adams – Quartet Movement (2016)
Anthony Cheung – The Real Book of Fake Tunes (2014)