April 13, 2011
Perhaps I should open this post with the warning “And now for something quite different”. Mark O’Connor is a violinist/composer, though he would probably describe himself as a fiddler. He has in fact composed the only Fiddle Concerto, which was commissioned by the Santa Fe Symphony and performed in 1994. So far as I can [...]
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September 29, 2010
The prize goes to Morton Feldman’s second string quartet, or formally, String Quartet (II). There are two recordings of the piece, lasting around five to six hours. One is by the only group that plays it with any regularity, the FLUX Quartet of New York. Here is their article about the physical stamina required, including [...]
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