To celebrate the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, New Thread Quartet will perform the world premiere of David Morneau’s Not Less Than the Good at the Morgan Library & Museum on June 2, 2017. The world premiere performance will open the Morgan’s exhibition This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal—the most comprehensive exhibition devoted to the life of one of America’s most influential authors and thinkers—and will feature poet J.D. McClatchy reading excerpts from Walden.