Tag: Chamber Music America Commissioning Program

STRING QUARTET NO. 1 (1984)

PROGRAM NOTE The Mendelssohn String Quartet’s invitation to compose a work for the group has presented a tremendous challenge for me. The string quartet, after all, is not merely an instrumental combination of two violins, viola and cello: it is a genre. For any composer undertaking the composition of a work in this medium, the…
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LYRE OF ORPHEUS for String Sextet (2008)

PROGRAM NOTE Lyre of Orpheus was composed for Concertante, the New York-based string sextet, for its ONE PLUS FIVE Project, a three-year, six-composer commissioning project designed to create six string sextets, each featuring one of Concertante core players. This particular commission was made with the goal of giving center-stage to the ensemble’s first cello (Concertante’s…
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