New Ways of Looking at old Things
featuring
Overlook Quartet
Monica Davis, violin Yezu Woo, violin
Angela Pickett, viola Laura MEtcalf, cello
Music
Gabriela Smith, Carrot Revolution
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, String Quartet no.1 "Calvary"
Shanan Estreicher, I Laughed So Hard I Cried
Trevor Weston, Juba
Eleonor Alberga, String Quartet no. 2
at the
Landcraft Garden Foundation
4342 Grand Ave, Mattituck, NY 11952
Saturday, July 5th, 2025, at 5:00pm
Rain date is scheduled for July 6th at 3:00pm
Description
We invite the audience to arrive at 4:00pm to visit the garden and enjoy the beauty of the natural landscape.
The concert is a 5:00pm outdoors on the main lawn of the Landcraft Garden. You will find chairs on the lawn to listen to the concert. It is highly recommended to bring a hat to cover yourself from the sun while waiting for the sunset and to enjoy listening to the music.
Music Program
The Overlook
Based in New York City, the “breathtaking” and “paradigm-shifting” (New York Music Daily) string quartet, The Overlook, is dedicated to a more representative and relevant chamber music experience. The quartet has been presented in performances and residencies around the country, highlighting the work of living composers, with recent collaborations including performing at Fotografiska NY’s Unfiltered Festival with NY Philharmonic clarinetist Anthony McGill, an immersive experience playing in the life size sculptures of Linda Sormin at MassMOCA, and bringing joyful energy through a meditative work for string quartet and improvising musician with jazz legend, Joe Lovano.
The quartet formed in 2020 from a simple need to make and share music with others during the pandemic shutdown. The longtime friends, some of New York’s most accomplished string players, gathered to play outdoors in parks and on street corners in Upper Manhattan. Their community stopped to listen. Through these casual outdoor performances, they built a following in person and on social media, connected with local businesses, composers and residential enclaves - eventually partnering with neighborhood cultural centers for their first official performances. They witnessed firsthand the power of music to unite and inspire.
With a growing community of collaborators and composers, the quartet engages audiences with music they might not have heard before but will want to hear again.
Based in New York City, the “breathtaking” and “paradigm-shifting” (New York Music Daily) string quartet, The Overlook, is dedicated to a more representative and relevant chamber music experience. The quartet has been presented in performances and residencies around the country, highlighting the work of living composers, with recent collaborations including performing at Fotografiska NY’s Unfiltered Festival with NY Philharmonic clarinetist Anthony McGill, an immersive experience playing in the life size sculptures of Linda Sormin at MassMOCA, and bringing joyful energy through a meditative work for string quartet and improvising musician with jazz legend, Joe Lovano.
The quartet formed in 2020 from a simple need to make and share music with others during the pandemic shutdown. The longtime friends, some of New York’s most accomplished string players, gathered to play outdoors in parks and on street corners in Upper Manhattan. Their community stopped to listen. Through these casual outdoor performances, they built a following in person and on social media, connected with local businesses, composers and residential enclaves - eventually partnering with neighborhood cultural centers for their first official performances. They witnessed firsthand the power of music to unite and inspire.
With a growing community of collaborators and composers, the quartet engages audiences with music they might not have heard before but will want to hear again.
This is a production of
Rites of Spring Music Festival
in collaboration with
Landcraft Garden Foundation
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Huntington Arts Council.
