Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban MilwaukeeThe Philomusica Quartet explores America’s evolving cultural identity through the lens of music for string quartet in a program titled American Roots on Monday, Feb. 2. Voted by BBC listeners as the “saddest classical work” ever written, the Adagio for Strings is Barber’s own transcription of the quartet’s Molto adagio movement. Tate’s string quartet is titled Pisachi (a Chickasaw word meaning “reveal”) and draws from Hopi and Pueblo music, rhythms and form. 12 in F Major, known as the “American” quartet, includes passages influenced by both spirituals and Native American musical traditions. The Philomusica Quartet presents this rich sampling of the roots of American classical music at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2, at the Wisconsin Lutheran College Schwan Concert Hall, 8815 W. Wisconsin Ave. Tickets are available online.