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 5:00 PM to set up and enjoy refreshments and stunning sunsets on The Back Deck.

Schedule of Events

July 18, 2023

7:30 PM - ETHEL

The genre-defying and ever-exciting ETHEL returns to the Back Deck for their first appearance since 2021. Known for their arrangements of a vast array of music, ETHEL delivers electric performances that surprise critics and audiences alike.

July 22, 2023

7:30 PM: Dover Quartet

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the GRAMMY® nominated Dover Quartet has followed a "practically meteoric" (Strings) trajectory to become one of the most in-demand chamber ensembles in the world. In addition to its faculty role as the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Dover Quartet holds residencies with the Kennedy Center, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Artosphere, and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival. The group's awards include a stunning sweep of all prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Its prestigious honors include the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center's Hunt Family Award.

Program
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat Major, H.III: 38 ("The Joke")
William Grant Still: Lyric String Quartette
Antonín Dvo?ák: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51

August 3, 2023

7:30 PM - Black Oak Ensemble

Performing works from Bach to Tango, the ensemble that reached #1 on the billboard classical charts last summer demonstrates their virtuosic versatility. Fanfare Magazine said, "the players fully inhabit the spirit of whatever work they are playing at the moment, performing each one with as ardent a flame as if they had written it themselves."
The Black Oak Ensemble's latest CD release, "Avant l'orage," a double album of French string trios, reached #1 in the Billboard Classical Charts in July 2022 and was featured as Album of the week on Symphony Hall Sirius XM and in November nominated for a 2022 ICMA International Chamber Music Award. Since then it has been lauded in the U.S. and International press, including Canada, Finland, The Netherlands and Germany.

Praised for its "insightful, committed and masterful performances" (Classics Today 10/10) and "fierce eloquence" (London Times), the Black Oak Ensemble is one of the most innovative and exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage.

August 6, 2023

7:30 PM - Galvin Cello Quartet

The Galvin Cello Quartet explores the limitless range of a cello ensemble by bringing together new works from diverse cultural backgrounds while seeking to establish the cello quartet as a core part of the classical music world. Composed of members from China, Brazil, South Korea, and the United States, Galvin Cello Quartet burst onto the scene after capturing the silver medal at the 2021 Fischoff Competition, followed shortly by winning the 2022 Victor Elmaleh Competition and joining the Concert Artists Guild roster. Cellists Sihao He, Sydney Lee, Haddon Kay, and Luiz Fernando Venturelli met as students at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music in the studio of acclaimed pedagogue Hans Jørgen Jensen. The quartet takes its name from the Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall at Bienen.

The Program

- Concert Polonaise, Op. 14 (David Popper)

- Winter from The Four Seasons (Antonio Vivaldi)

- Feierliches Stück (Richard Wagner)

- Une Larme (Gioachino Rossini)

- Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout (Gabriela Lena Frank)

- Three Preludes (George Gershwin)
I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
II. Andante con moto e poco rubato (Blue Lullaby)
III. Agitato (Spanish Prelude)

- La Muerte del Ángel (Astor Piazzolla)

Date: July 18, 22, August 3 and 6, 2023

Time: 7:30 PM

Cost:
Block for Two: $50
Block for One: $25
$3.00 handling fee per block

Location:
Morris Museum,
6 Normandy Heights Road,
Morristown, NJ 07960.

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