Coming up in Philly music: Inspiring traditions, Chinese and American

What do Astral Artists do after they end their sojourn with the Philadelphia institution. which offers career-boosting mentorship and training to carefully selected young musicians? Clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois is enjoying a globetrotting career that includes kudos like a New York Times review calling her “extraordinary” and “formidable.”

For her next visit to Philadelphia, De Guise-Langlois will join the Daedalus Quartet in the Philadelphia premiere of a new quintet co-commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Chamber Music Northwest. Vivian Fung composed “Frenetic Memories” in response to a trip to Southeast China that she found “a bit overwhelming.” The quintet mingles her reactions to novel sights and experiences with music inspired by the traditional music of Chinese minority groups. Daedalus will follow it, appropriately, with a Charles Ives string quartet that quotes American tunes like “Turkey in the Straw” and “Marching Through Georgia.” Their opener will be a 20th-century classic, Prokofiev’s "Quartet in B Minor."

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society will present The Daedalus Quartet with Romie de Guise-Langlois on clarinet on Sunday, March 25 at 3pm at the American Philosophical Society’s Benjamin Franklin Hall (427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia). Tickets ($20) are available online and at the door.