Join the Practitioners of Musick and members of the vocal ensemble Mostly Motets led by Timothy Carpenter in a program of music in association with the Morven Museum and Garden current exhibition “Striking Beauty” New Jersey Tall Case Clocks 1730-1830. The first exhibition of its kind “Striking Beauty” celebrates the ingenuity of New Jersey clock makers and features over 50 tall case clocks from private and public collections. Clocks are on view from New Jersey cities and towns such New Brunswick, Elizabeth, Newark, Trenton, and Princeton. These freestanding pendulum clocks, all marvels of exquisite cabinetry, are as functional as beautiful with faces made of intricate brass work or painted designs of objects like ships, suns, and moons. Internally, their complicated workings are mechanical masterpieces . Some in the exhibition chime with contemporaneous melodies drawn from sacred and secular vocal and instrument sources with the tune selections recorded on the clock face dial. For example, the clock made by Silas Howell in New Brunswick circa 1797 performs four tunes with the titles painted in the dial arch “Bunker Hill”, “Norwich” , “Williams Town” , and “Newton”. Hear these compositions and more Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 6: 30 pm . For further information visit Morven.org