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Quartet for Oboe and Strings.(Brief article)(Book review)
Quartet for Oboe and Strings, by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Theodore Presser Company (www.presser.com), 2007. 16 pp. $35.
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939-) is one of the most prolific and acclaimed composers of our time. She is the first woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Music, and her music is recognizable as American, extremely well-crafted and neo-romantic and tonal in nature.
The Saratoga Chamber Music Festival commissioned Quartet for Oboe and Strings from Zwilich and premiered it August 22, 2004, at their Festival. It is 14 minutes in length and requires a very high level of musical and technical ability from the musicians (oboe, violin, viola and cello) who perform the work.
The first movement is lyrical with soaring oboe lines that display almost the entire practical range of the oboe. Expressive dynamic contrasts and challenging and meaningful writing ...
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