Partitions de Associated pour Quatuor ŕ cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle

(Poems) Score and Parts-(Poems) Score and Parts. A collection of six poems Husa's String Quartet No. 4 explores the possibilities of unusual sonorities in virtuosic writing. The individual poems speak of Bells Sunlight Darkness Hope Wild Birds andFreedom and are performed without interruption.

Score and Parts-String Quartet in four movements. The first three are about different kinds of 'weather' their atmosphere and energy. The last movement is the moment after: open sky.

Set of Parts-First performed by the Julliard String Quartet in 1960. Awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize the 1960 New York Music Critics Circle Award and the 1961 International Rostrum of Composers Award (UNESCO).

The second String Quartet by Joan Tower is a short but complex work addressing thoughts of death and loss written in memory of an old friend. The piece was commissioned by and is dedicated to the Tokyo String Quartet who firstperformed the piece in February 2002 at the 92nd Street Y New York City.Further inspired by the events in New York on September 11th 2001 the writing contains high sustained celestial material which slowly descends. Thiswriting is paired with more forceful driving and repetitive musical ideas that attempt to express the anger and pain that results from the loss of people in one's life.

Score and Parts-A fascinating and deeply personal work from a major contemporary composer. Duration ca. 22 minutes.