String Quartet No. 4 (2021)
“Kaddish”
16 minutes
Program Notes
The fourth string quartet is the finale in a triptych cycle of quartets, and the first one to be premiered. 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.
Verona Quartet, March, 18, 2023, Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Perusal Score
You may access the perusal score here: String Quartet No. 4, “Kaddish” Perusal Score
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Recent Performances
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