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Aizuri Quartet
Lot of Strings Music Festival
Thursday, July 25 | 7:30 PM
"Elegant, inquisitive" —The New Yorker
Making their highly anticipated Lot of Strings debut,
Aizuri Quartet brings their international award-winning musicality to
an insightful program that features works by Clara Schumann, Fanny
Mendelssohn, and Franz Shubert. Praised by The Washington
Post for “astounding” and “captivating” performances that draw
from its notable “meld of intellect, technique and emotions,” the
Aizuri Quartet was named the recipient of the 2022 Cleveland Quartet
Award by Chamber Music America, with other honors including the Grand
Prize at the 2018 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition and top prizes at
the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan and the
2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in London.
Bring your own chairs and refreshments and enjoy live
entertainment atop the Morris Museum’s elevated parking deck. Patrons
are invited to arrive as early as 6:00 PM to set up and enjoy
refreshments and stunning sunsets on The Back Deck.
TICKETS: $53 for an 8’x8’ block that accommodates up
to two patrons or $28 for a block that accommodates one patron. In the
event of inclement weather, outdoor performances will be held inside
the Museum’s Bickford Theatre as general admission. Contact the Box
Office with questions: 973-971-3706
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Upcoming Back
Deck Concerts
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Harlem Quartet
Lot of
Strings Music Festival
Thursday,
August 1 | 7:30 PM
The
Grammy-Award-winning Harlem Quartet returns to The Back Deck with a
concert that blurs the lines of jazz and classical and highlights their
signature style that bridges both genres.
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Erinys Quartet
Lot of
Strings Music Festival
Saturday,
August 3 | 7:30 PM
The
international, Erinys Quartet makes their Back Deck debut! Named for
the Erinyes (a.k.a. the Furies) from the Greek tragedy Oresteia by
Aeschylus, and with roots in Estonia, Lithuania, Greece, the United
States and Finland, the Erinys Quartet was founded in 2018 at the
Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where they worked closely with cellist
Marko Ylönen.
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Laura Anglade Quartet
Jazz on
the Back Deck
Saturday,
August 10 | 7:30 PM
The Laura
Anglade Quartet will perform their own arrangements drawing from the
Great American Songbook as well as some French classics inspired by
Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Carmen McRae, Barbra Streisand and more.
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An Evening of String Sextets with Lyrica Chamber Music
Lot of
Strings Music Festival
Thursday,
August 15 | 7:30 PM
Co-Artistic
Director of Lyrica Chamber Music, cellist Ani Kalayjian curates a
vivacious program of sextets including the triumphant A major Dvorak
sextet, stunning Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian, and the gorgeous B
flat Sextet by Johannes Brahms performed by world-class chamber
musicians. An incredible performance you will not want to miss!
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The Fumos
Jazz on
the Back Deck
Saturday,
August 17 | 7:30 PM
Back Deck
debut! THE FUMOS are an NYC-based band reviving the glorious horn-heavy
dance music of the 70s. From funk to rock, soul and jazz; the 4-piece
rhythm section lays down heavy grooves to surround a 3-piece horn
section on an array of memorable classic tunes that are danceable and
straight up fun!
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Life's a Gig with Vanisha Gould
Jazz on
the Back Deck
Saturday,
August 24 | 7:30 PM
Vanisha
Gould brings her lustrous voice to the Back Deck for an exciting debut.
Vanisha came to New York in 2015 from Simi Valley, California. Inspired
by artists like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Carmen
McRae, and Ella Fitzgerald – Vanisha has successfully curated her sound
as a composer and band leader.
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Blanc
Aprés Labor Day with Mike Davis and the New Wonders
Jazz on
the Back Deck
Saturday,
September 14 | 7:30 PM
Celebrate
the end of the season with a 1920s jazz party! Don your summer white
clothes one more time before packing them for winter for this stylish
Back Deck Gatsby style party in Jazz! Mike Davis and The New Wonders
will play works they have never performed at the Morris Museum before
in this upbeat and glamorous Celebration of the Jazz Age and the end of
summer!
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Thank you for
your support!
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Leadership Support for the Lot of Strings Concert
Series is provided by Will and Mary Leland and Lot of Strings founding
donor, F. Gary Knapp.
Support for the Back Deck Concert Series is provided by
Morris County Economic Development Alliance & Tourism Bureau.
The Morris County Economic Development Alliance & Tourism Bureau receives funding from the
County of Morris and the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Travel & Tourism.
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Photos by Jack Grassa.
The Morris Museum gratefully acknowledges generous
operating support from the following funders:
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