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COLORADO QUARTET
Works by Husa, Laderman and Powell
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String Quartet No. 4 (Poems)
Colorado Quartet
Ezra Laderman, composer
String Quartet No. 7
Colorado Quartet
Mel Powell, composer
String Quartet
Colorado Quartet
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Karel Husa's String Quartet No. 4 (Poems) was commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts for the consortium of the Colorado, Blair and Alard Quartets. The works was completed in the spring of 1990 in Ithaca, New York. A collection of six poems, the String Quartet No. 4 explores possibilities of unusual sonorities in a virtuosic writing. When Lucy Mann of the Naumburg Foundation requested a new work for the Colorado Quartet in 1983, Ezra Laderman thought the proposal over for about a week, and it was during this time that he realized that his Quartet No. 6 could be the first work in a triptych. He felt ready now to take the same material he had used in No. 6, music inspired by four youthful personalities, and place it "in the midst of life" as Laderman says. The four-note-motive of NO. 6 strides out again at the beginning of No. 7 - only now it is inverted, so that it reaches muscularly upward. The String Quartet 1982 by Mel Powell was composed for the Composers String Quartet, the Sequoia String Quartet and the Thouvenel String Quartet under a consortium commission from the National Endowment for the Arts, which, at the same time, commissioned this quartet and quartets from Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter. Powell's Quartet is played through as a single movement with clearly differentiated subdivisions.Contents:
Karel Husa, composerString Quartet No. 4 (Poems)
Colorado Quartet
Ezra Laderman, composer
String Quartet No. 7
Colorado Quartet
Mel Powell, composer
String Quartet
Colorado Quartet