Arts Scene: Catalyst Quartet features Black composers; Theatre Tulsa premieres ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ | Entertainment
The Catalyst Quartet will perform Feb. 25-27.
Kathleen Hope is Gina, who welcomes three of her former students to a gathering that becomes a dark night for their collective souls in Theatre Tulsa’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning.”
Robert Young portrays Kevin in Theatre Tulsa’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning.”
Amanda Berry portrays Teresa in Theatre Tulsa’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning.”
Steve Barker portrays Justin in Theatre Tulsa’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning.”
Emily Peterson portrays Emily in Theatre Tulsa’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning.”
Chamber Music Tulsa will present the acclaimed Catalyst Quartet in a series of performances Feb. 25-27 that will celebrate music by composers who have been overlooked and sidelined in classical music, especially because of their race or gender.
The concert programs grew out of the ensemble’s current project, “Uncovered,” a multi-volume set of albums to be released on Azica Records that highlight the works of Black composers such as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Arkansas-born Florence Price and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson.
The quartet will also be performing works by two contemporary American composers, Libby Larsen and Jessie Montgomery, a former violinist with the Catalyst Quartet.
The ensemble’s credo, as stated on their website, is: “We believe in the unity that can be achieved through music and imagine our programs and projects with this in mind, redefining and reimagining the classical music experience.”
The Catalyst Quartet — violinists Karla Donehew Perez and Abi Fayette; Paul Laraia, viola; and cellist Karlos Rodriguez — will perform works by Price and Montgomery, along with arrangements of American folk songs, at its Friday, Feb. 25, concert, 8 p.m. at ahha Tulsa, 101 E. Archer St.
The Saturday Salon concert, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Tulsa PAC’s Westby Pavilion, 110 E. Second St., will feature works by Coleridge-Taylor, Price and Perkinson.
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