CRISIS & OVERCOMING (from Two String Quartets)

Composer: 
Dane Rudhyar
Instrumentation freestyle: 
string quartet
Year Authored: 
1979
Duration (min): 
20
Alternate Title: 
String Quartet No. 2
Recording: 
Kronos Quartet: CRI SD418, recorded on July 2 and 3, 1979, funded by an American Academy/Institute of Arts & Letters award; Reissue on NWCR-604

"Crisis and Overcoming," a four-movement string quartet written in 1979 for the Kronos Quartet. Here Rudhyar writes instrumental conversations that sound fugal without actually repeating, and he closes with a little double homage to Ravel and Gershwin.

Publisher: 
ACA
Publisher URL: 
American Composers Alliance

Ensemble Type

audio/mpeg iconExcerpt from first movement
List Price: 
$49.95 score with parts; engraved edition