Hancher Auditorium at University of Iowa

JACK Quartet returns Friday evening for a second Fifty for the Future program—pulling the catalog's wider range into focus.

Nicole Lizée conjures film noir, while Yotam Haber builds on a Jewish melody from Italy's Piedmont. Aleksander Kościów meditates on the ancient Greek cry for mercy. Sky Macklay imagines notes as prehistoric bones. Tanya Tagaq brings Arctic sounds into the string quartet, and Rafiq Bhatia reimagines the quartet through his own guitar technique. A skittish, incantatory work by Laurie Anderson closes the evening.

Program:
Nicole Lizée: Darkness Is Not Well Lit
Yotam Haber: From the Book
Aleksander Kościów: Hílathi
Sky Macklay: Vertebrae
Tanya Tagaq: Sivunittinni
Rafiq Bhatia: Glimmers; 3 movements
Laurie Anderson: Shutter Island

Tickets go on sale to the general public on July 20, 2026 at 10:00am CT.