Klap Ur Handz

Klap Ur Handz

Lark Quartet I can’t help it. I hear a quartet with a backing track of hand claps and I can’t escape the vision of a whole congregation of cute little old ladies—garden clubbers in pill box hats, swaying back and forth with the groove, their white-gloved hands keeping the beat. But chamber music isn’t just… Read more »

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Lark Quartet

I can’t help it. I hear a quartet with a backing track of hand claps and I can’t escape the vision of a whole congregation of cute little old ladies—garden clubbers in pill box hats, swaying back and forth with the groove, their white-gloved hands keeping the beat. But chamber music isn’t just for grandma, and Roumain takes that assertion up a notch in this remix of the opening track of his Quartet No. 5 “Rosa Parks.” The track was built on a performance the Lark gave at the Chamber Music America conference with violist Kathryn Lockwood’s husband, Yousif Sheronick, lending some percussion. DBR built out the track with his own beats.

—MS