ERIC CHASALOW Second String Quartet (2020, world premiere of on-site version)

How does a musical experience change when the audience is invited to move among performing musicians, and the performers cannot communicate? Drawing on a history of experimentation at the Rose Art Museum and the pioneering precedent of 1960s performances by John Cage and Alvin Lucier, Second Quartet explores this question in the debut of a piece composed by Eric Chasalow, Irving G. Fine Professor of Music. Developed during a recent residency at the MacDowell Colony, Second Quartet premieres at the museum in a one hour performance by Brandeis University's Lydian String Quartet.