Tonight the SLSQ gives the world premiere of John Adams’s Second String Quartet at Stanford.
Here’s a clip of the SLSQ playing the second movement from Adams’s First Quartet:
One of my favorite string quartets is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a typical overdrive of crative activity. Here’s my recent portrait of the St. Lawrence for Stanford Arts:
“It’s a great time both to be playing in a string quartet and to be writing string quartets,” remarks Geoff Nuttall, first violinist and cofounder of the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ). He’s thrilled about how both pursuits—those of the recreative performing artist and of the composer who creates from scratch—will be fused in three distinctive ways during the course of the SLSQ’s upcoming season at Bing Concert Hall.
Filed under: chamber music, commissions, John Adams, string quartet
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 