New Orford String Quartet: Music of Schubert and Beethoven <BR> BRIDGE 9363In spite of sharing the same city streets during the same epoch and making acquaintances with many of the same people, Schubert and Beethoven never had any direct contact. By the time Schubert was beginning his musical career, Beethoven was almost completely deaf, and because of this, increasingly shut off from society. The two masterful quartets on this disc were composed in the same year, 1826; in the same city, Vienna. They are performed here by

but composed a great deal of concert music

1938 Recital

"Thrilling

Herzgewächse

inhale and exhale as one

though there was a time when he was among the most frequently performed American composers on either side of the Atlantic

The work was composed at the request of the legendary soprano Bethany Beardslee and was composed while Lerdahl was in residence at the Marlboro Music Festival

a charming set of miniatures portraying a day in the life of a new-born baby

Violin Concerto (1990)

Fairytale (1999) for orchestra

What a terrific player

written during his apprenticeship at Harvard