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- Philip Glass
String Quartet No 8 (2018)
- Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc (World)
Commissioned by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival and Carnegie Hall.
The World Premiere was given by JACK Quartet in Alloway Hall, Winnipeg, Manitoba on February 1, 2018.
Programme Note
"String Quartet No. 8 is the eighth of the ‘numbered’ quartets. Some other unnumbered quartets have been composed for film and theater productions — as in the films Dracula and Bent.
String Quartet No. 8 is meant as a concert work, and cast in a traditional three part ‘fast-slow-fast’ format. It is based on a free mixture of neoclassical and traditional harmonic music, which adds a playful and whimsical flavor to the otherwise solemn string quartet repertoire."
- Philip Glass, January 2018