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Divertimento for String Quartet

Instrumentation
2vn,va,vc
Year
1982
Duration
11:15

I wrote my Divertimento in 1982 in response to a commission from my late friends Virginia and Giovannina de Blasiis, indomitable directors of the Glens Falls (NY) chamber music concerts for more than sixty years.

 The work is in a single movement characterized by revisited material which, on each recurrence, is progressively compressed – somewhat in the manner of a raga, which begins slowly and contemplatively, and gradually accelerates.

 CW, 9 June 2004

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