TUESDAYS @ MONK SPACE PRESENTS: An Evening of Strings, Strings, and . . .  Presented by the Cold Blue Music Record Label*

Exquisite, virtuosic music from Los Angeles’s Cold Blue Music record label, a source of remarkable new music with a West Coast slant for more than 25 years. 

• The West Coast premiere of John Luther Adams’s stunning, kinetic perpetual-acceleration canon Never and Always Becoming (String Quartet No. 9), performed by the always brilliant Eclipse Quartet
• Peter Garland’s six lovely, spirited “dances” for two violins and gourd rattles, Matachin Dances, performed by Eclipse members Sara Parkins and Sarah Thornblade with PARTCH Ensemble percussionist Nick Terry 
• Jim Fox’s haunting in memoriam music for nine cellos and double bass, Descansos, past, performed by bassist-composer Christopher Roberts, and a bevy of LA’s finest new music cellists, including Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Ashley Walters, Maggie Parkins, Mia Barcia-Colombo, Sören Lesher, Jennifer Bewerse, and Grace Dashnaw.
• Daniel Lentz’s beautiful, alluring Requiem, for female voice and electric piano, performed by the superb vocalist Elliot Menard.