Melting Pot—A Concert by A Far Cry

According to the New York Times, A Far Cry “brims with personality or, better, personalities, many and varied.” Founded in 2007 by a tightly knit collective of seventeen young professional musicians, the group has fostered those personalities, developing an innovative structure of rotating leadership both on stage and behind the scenes. While maintaining an international touring schedule, the Criers are proud to call Boston home, rehearsing at their storefront music center in Jamaica Plain and fulfilling the role of Chamber Orchestra-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

 This program explores a single question: what is American music? A bold suite of Old-World inspired "new immigrant" music from the streets of Brooklyn rubs shoulders with a double concerto that brings the American fiddling tradition into the twentieth century. Rounding out the program are works by Ives and a new arrangement of Antonín Dvořák’s "American" quintet, written as he was first experiencing the New World. Join us in this celebration of the continuing diversity of the American experience.


 Tickets are free with a Tufts ID card (limit two per ID) and $10 for general admission. Call 617.627.3679 for tickets.