03 Feb Oculus pro oculo totum orbem terrae caecat (An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind) (2003)

for string quartet (String Quartet No.1)
Posted at 17:09h in ALL WORKS, STRING QUARTETS by alexandra

Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet as part of the first Kronos: Under 30 Project
World premiere: April 2003, Kronos Quartet, Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Detroit Premiere: 2007, New Music Detroit, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit; New York Premiere: 2008, JACK Quartet, Carnegie Hall; Los Angeles and Hanoi, Vietnam premieres: 2010, Southwest Chamber Music
Commercial Release: 2013, Kronos Quartet, Judith Sherman, producer, recorded at Skywalker Studios

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