Tag: Brentano String Quartet

BACH-SHARDS for string quartet (2001)

Prelude to Contrapunctus X from the Art of the Fugue PROGRAM NOTES While composing BACH-SHARDS I found myself gravitating, intuitively and gradually, toward a dual goal. First, although the tension and dissonance inherent in certain moments of Bach’s own maze-like contrapuntal structures could quite easily and naturally lead one into a pungent contemporary terrain, I…
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STREAM (2015) for Clarinet and String Quartet

The title STREAM encapsulates some of the essential characteristics of this 16-minute long composition for clarinet and string quartet: it suggests flow—whether gentle or forceful; it implies a journey, one that could take us onto unexpected terrains yet is always moving forward; embedded into this word is also the idea of “stream of consciousness,” and with it, free association and unexpected twists of fancy.

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