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(Firefox and Mac) Javier Álvarez.
“Originally written in 1986 as a piece for string orchestra, Alvarez revised it for string quartet and dedicated it to the Cuarteto Latinoamericano. Its first performance took place at the “Metro Chabacano” of the Mexico City subway system to accompany the grand opening of an enormous kinetic art installation by Marcos Limenes. The piece has a continuous eighth-note movement of driving rhythm from which a melodic solo emerges in turn from each instrument. The repeated notes give a false sense of simplicity: though the piece is brief, the rhythms, accents and melodic fragments that emerge from the perpetual motion background are intricately complex.”
(Mary Beth Crain) José Pablo Moncayo (Arranged for string quartet by Mischa Meissner and Alan Daowz) Emmanuel Arias y Luna Sonoralia Op. 3 "La Zacatecana" Antonin Dvořák String Quartet Op. 96 "American," Edvard Grieg String Quartet No. 1, Op. 25 F. J. Haydn. String Quartet Op. 64#5 "The Lark," W.A. Mozart. String Quartet K. 387 Silvestre Revueltas Zae Munn Our Hands Were Tightly Clenched (2003)
"Our Hands Were Tightly Clenched was written in 2003 for the La Catrina Quartet and was premiered by them in Chicago on September 25, 2003. The phrase 'Our Hands Were Tightly Clenched' is for me a metaphor for sustained, embedded tension and anger, and the material in this piece explores the rise of this tension and ways in which its persistence might be diffused or relaxed." Zae Munn Please visit Dr. Munn's web page at:
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