FOR DEAR LIFE—LINDA’S MUSIC for String Sextet (2011)

PROGRAM NOTE I began writing this short work for string sextet at the request of Claude Chemtob, Linda Shapiro’s husband, as a surprise gift for Linda’s for her sixtieth birthday. At that point Linda was battling heroically the lung cancer which she had thought she had conquered several years earlier. A birthday party was planned—it…
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