WHAT IS AMERICAN

PUBLIQuartet

Release Date: June 17, 2022

GRAMMY-nominated PUBLIQuartet's latest album WHAT IS AMERICAN explores the resonance between contemporary, blues, jazz, free and rock-inflected music - all of which trace their roots back to the Black and Indigenous music that inspired Dvorak’s “American” String Quartet. Interrogating these traditions of our nation’s complex history, PQ attempts to connect the dots, illuminating the past, present, and future of American concert music. What Is American is ultimately a call to ponder the kaleidoscope of composers and diverse genres that make up America’s rich musical history.

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TRACK LIST
Fifth Verse*
1. Prelude

MIND | THE | GAP: What Is American
Improvisations on Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet No. 12, Op. 96 "American"
2. Allegro ma non troppo”
3. Lento
4. Molto vivace
5. Vivace ma non troppo

Rhiannon Giddens
6. At the Purchaser's Option (arr. PUBLIQuartet)

Fifth Verse*
7. Page of Her Story

MIND | THE | GAP: Pavement Pounding Rose with A’Lelia Bundles, narrator
8. Improvisations on “Honeysuckle Rose” by Fats Waller

MIND | THE | GAP: Free Radicals
9. Improvisations on “Law Years” and “Street Woman” by Ornette Coleman

Fifth Verse*
10. Land of the Free

Vijay Iyer
Dig the Say
11. I. carry the ball
12. IIa. this thing together
13. IIb. up from the ground
14. III. to live tomorrow

Fifth Verse*
15. Interlude

Roscoe Mitchell
16. CARDS 11-11-2020

MIND | THE | GAP: Wild Women
Improvisations on:
17. “Black Coffee” by Tina Turner
18. “They Say I'm Different” by Betty Davis
19.“Er Ra” by Alice Coltrane
20. “Wild Women Don't Get the Blues” by Ida Cox

*Fifth Verse music composed by PUBLIQuartet, lyrics by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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