Concert of chamber music by the Mexican experimental composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1985) played by the Momenta Quartet.  The Momenta Quartet will perform string quartets nos. 3, 6, and 8 by the visionary Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1985). This will be a unique opportunity to hear the rarely-played music of one of Latin America's most extraordinary musical figures and to experience the mystical overtones of his enigmatic Sonido 13 (microtonal music system). The Momenta Quartet played the world premiere of Carrillo's String Quartet No. 6 (ca. 1937) last year at the Festival Cervantino in Mexico. This Fall, at Harvard, the ensemble will play its Boston premiere. The concert will take place in Payne Concert Hall (Harvard University's Department of Music) at noon on October 12.

String Quartet No. 3 “Dos bosquejos” (1928)
 I. “Meditación”: Maestoso-Allegretto 
II. “En secreto”: Muy largamente
String Quartet No. 6 (ca.1937, Boston premiere)
I. Allegro impulsivo-Tranquilo-Allegro-Vivo-Maestoso
String Quartet No. 8 (ca. 1959)
I. Poco mosso  
II. Lentamente
III. Scherzo: Allegretto
IV. Final: Allegro

Between 1903 and 1964 Carrillo composed thirteen string quartets. Notwithstanding its being a unique collection of major works for string quartet by one of Latin America’s foremost composers, this repertory has received little attention from performers and musicologists. Taken as a cycle, Carrillo’s string quartets show the diversity of aesthetic tendencies developed and embraced by the composer throughout his long artistic career.