In the thirty-page booklet that accompanies Wadada Leo Smith's String Quartets Nos. 1-12, the trumpeter & composer devotes a few paragraphs to the subject of inspiration. He traces an irregular line ...
Benjamin Bowman of the Curtis Institute of Music plays the Beethoven E-Flat Major String Quartet in the Hamilton rooftop lounge last Tuesday. (Jennifer Winston/The Daily Pennsylvanian) Beethoven and ...
Wadada Leo Smith's seven CD boxset String Quartets Nos. 1-12 summons two words, epic and ineffable. The 5½ hours of music chronicle three of his four periods writing for string quartets from 1965 ...