String Quartet No. 4 “Kaddish” (2021)
16 minutes
Program Notes
The fourth string quartet is my first foray into bringing Yiddish music into my compositional practice, the single-movement work explores loss and mourning through two Jewish folk melodies sourced from the Ruth Rubin Legacy archives through the medium of a large. expansive Passacaglia. Writing this work was, for me, an act of Kaddish, and the act of saying Kaddish musically was through these folk songs. And as the Kaddish is a prayer of mourning and death without referencing these themes directly; both folk songs indirectly reflect on death, dying, romance or loss.
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Recent Performances
October 26, 2024 | Killian Hall, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Semiosis Quartet
September 14, 2024 (2 performances) | Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, CA. Del Sol Quartet
March 18, 2023 | Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Verona Quartet