Jean C Wilson Series presents: Improbable Beasts share deep resonances, soaring lyricism, and propulsive grooves as a bass clarinet ensemble! The Improbable Beasts bass clarinet ensemble presents a program spanning centuries, continents, and genres. The music ranges from the 12th-century Gregorian chant of Hildegard von Bingen, to choral music of baroque composer Henry Purcell, to arrangements of string quartets by 20th-century composers Béla Bartók and Samuel Barber, to African-American spirituals, to the avant-folk-metal-klezmer Finnish band Alamaailman Vasarat, to original compositions by bandleader Jonathan Russell that draw on classical, klezmer, heavy metal, blues, and more!