Strum for string quartet/quintet (2006, rev. 2012) 7'
string quartet or quintet
commissioned by Community MusicWorks; revision by the Sphinx Organization
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Review: Nova Linea Musica Is a World Class Addition to Chicago’s Musical Soundscape
“The Dover Quartet graced Guarneri Hall for the first Nova Linea Musica experience. They are Joel Link on violin, Bryan Lee on violin, Julianne Lee on viola, and Camden Shaw…
Season Announcement: ‘If I don’t feel scared, I haven’t done my job,’ says composer Carlos Simon
“Local audiences can get a feel for those ideas at the Boston Symphony Chamber Players’s first concert of the 2024-25 season, on Sept. 29. The program focuses on music by…
Interview: Jessie Montgomery: Conjuring Memories
“What sets Montgomery’s own music apart from so many of her antecedents as well as peers is how deeply immersed she has been for most of her life in the…
Announcement: The Sphinx Organization to Make Wigmore Hall Debut in May
“The program opens with Strum by 2024 GRAMMY-winning composer, violinist and educator Jessie Montgomery, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s current Mead Composer-in-Residence, who has been affiliated with the Sphinx Organization since…
Feature: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Composers
“I love Jessie Montgomery’s “Strum” because I can find myself in it. The way it searches and shifts, changing colors and textures; the way the second violin and viola join…
Review: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra continues with thrilling new Live at the Sheldon series
“On “Strum” (2006), which opens with an instantly unforgettable plucked violin part, their 20 rhythmic strings filled every corner and cranny of the Sheldon. In this intimate setting with such…