String Quartet No. 6

String Quartet No. 6

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For string quartet. Harbison's String Quartet No. 6 was commissioned by the Lark Quartet, Telegraph Quartet, Tanglewood Music Center with the generous support of the Merwin Geffen, M.D. and Norman Solomon, M.D. New Commissions Fund, and the Ariel Quartet through support from Ann and Harry Santen and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.Composer note:: String Quartet No. 6 was commissioned by a consortium that includes the Lark, Ariel, and Telegraph quartets, and the Tanglewood Music Center. It is in four movements:1. Lontano: At first, from a distance, then closer but still not joining, the first violinist stays physically, psychologically and temperamentally distant from the string trio, which plays in a relaxed, rural style.2. Canto sospeso: A long melody is shared, explored, then suspended, eventually displaced and nearly abandoned completely. It reappears as a memory at the very end.3. Soggetti cavati: Framing this brief episode, two sets of initials represent

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