STRING QUARTET NO. 2 “VISTAS” (1988–89)

PROGRAM NOTE My second string quartet, “Vistas,” is a work cast in a traditional four-movement formal mold, with the outer movements, presenting and later returning to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and a scherzo-type third movement. While the four movements’ “proper” names — Maestoso con forza, Lento, Scherzo impetuoso, and Introduzione;…
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