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ID7560EAEC-686E-417B-ABA4-5D9C6B5DE8B5
TitlecodeX504011
Title NameString Quartet No. 1: By a Grace of Sense Surrounded
Marketing CopyComposed in one large movement, the work speaks of longing, struggle and memory. The title comes from a line of verse found in T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets".
InstrumentationString Quartet
CommissionCommissioned by Chamber Music America for the Mendelssohn String Quartet.
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Program NotesComposed in one large movement, the quartet speaks of longing, struggle and memory. I structured the piece around a single obsessive phrase, heard at the very opening, from which everything else in the work departs and to which all returns. This phrase is the 'grace of sense' which 'surrounds' the work. The phrase 'grace of sense' is borrowed from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. At moments, I treated the four voices as conflicting aspects of a single idea. The work is deeply personal, and I dedicate it with joy to the members of the Mendelssohn String Quartet.

String Quartet No. 1 (by a grace of sense surrounded) was commissioned by Chamber Music America for the Mendelssohn String Quartet with funds from The Pew Charitable Trusts. --Bruce Adolphe
Title Brand2
Year Composed1990
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Duration20
Ensemble Size4
Date Created2008-10-31 20:32:09.000000
Date Updated2025-09-30 20:32:09
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Recording CreditsRecording by the Brentano String Quartet, "Turning, Returning," CRI 761
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Title Category10
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Title Instrument Category TextString Duo & Ensemble
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