The Boston Public Quartet and guest artist DeShaun Gordon-King, flute, present Source Code, a program celebrating the music of five landmark women composers from the late romantic period to the present. Jessie Montgomery’s quartet of the same name channels Alvin Ailey, Langston Hughes, and Ella Fitzgerald in a pensive dirge which showcases the core of her musical vernacular. Each following composer captures the essence of their voice within the sounds and rhythms of their piece, and the listener in turn is taken on a journey to decode the sources that are embedded within the experience. We explore French composer Melanie Bonis (who used the pen name “Mel” in order to be published), Boston’s own Amy Beach, Peruvian-American composer Gabriella Lena Frank, Jamaican-British composer Eleanor Alberga OBE and Grammy winner and close friend to the group, Jessie Montgomery. 

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Joined by DeShaun Gordon-King on flute, the quartet will perform a program celebrating female composers, including Gabriela Lena Frank, an American pianist and composer of contemporary classical music, Mel Bonis, a prolific French late-Romantic composer, Eleanor Alberga OBE, a Jamaican contemporary music composer who lives and works in the United Kingdom, Jessie Montgomery, Musical America’s 2023 Composer of the Year, and Grammy-winning, acclaimed composer, violinist and educator, and Amy Beach, the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music, her “Gaelic” Symphony was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896.

Jessie Montgomery channels Alvin Ailey, Langston Hughes, and Ella Fitzgerald in a dirge which showcases the core of her musical vernacular.