by Rosie Pentreath
The US clarinettist meets art with music in this stunning performance of works by Coleridge-Taylor, Hailstork and Danielpour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“I grew up in a household where music and art were a part of everyday life,” US clarinettist Anthony McGill wrote in the programme for a recent performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
“It was how you went through the world. Creating, appreciating, and learning without hesitation. We were taught that to live a full life you needed to fully experience music and art.”
McGill was performing a programme of works with the Catalyst Quartet – Karla Donehew Perez and Abi Fayette on violin, Paul Laraia on the viola and Karlos Rodriguez playing cello – in an online event called ‘Cadence: The Sounds of Justice, the Sounds of a Movement’.
The concert, filmed in the Met’s Gallery 915, featured Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet (watch above) and Adolphus Hailstork’s Three Smiles for Tracey, as well as the world premiere of a new work by Richard Danielpour.
The programme was inspired by McGill’s family migration from the Deep South of America to Chicago, and by paintings by Kerry James Marshall and others in The Met’s collection.
“Art is life. Music is life. Music and art live inside of us,” McGill writes of the concert.
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