Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440572S
Composed
by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Sws. Premiere: South
Mountain Concerts,
Pittsfield, MA; Saint
Lawrence String Quartet.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2012. 16 pages.
Duration 12 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40572S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14440572S).
ISBN
9781598066029. UPC:
680160617685. 9x12
inches.
When the
family heirs to the
legendary Galimir String
Quartet (three sisters
and a brother) gathered
to commemorate the
centenary birth years of
these famed performers,
they chose Ellen Taaffe
Zwilich to commission for
this honor. The composer,
who has also worked
professionally as a
violinist, responded with
a one-movement odyssey
entitled Voyage,
cross-breeding her own
characteristic style with
glimpses of Viennese
waltzes and other Galimir
flavor. There is a sweet,
sad lyricism to this
work, a hectic
discord..., some wailing
and moaning, these moods
alternating with dancing
klezmer rhythms of Jewish
wedding music that take
over and make things
right in the end.
(Stanley Fefferman,
BachTrack.com).