A Malaysian, a German, an American and a Canadian walked into a recording studio… That’s neither the prelude to a joke nor a hypothetical posit. In fact, New World is the latest disc from the thought-provoking Sirius Quartet (Fung Chern Hwei and Gregor Huebner, violin, Ron Lawrence, viola, and Jeremy Harman, cello) and a politically-charged exploration of themes of immigration, discrimination, musical integration, and how artists might function as agents of change.