Jennifer Higdon (Southern Harmony)

One of several commissions for the Ying Quartet, Jennifer Higdon's Southern Harmony (2003) is a three-movement work for string quartet. The piece both stays true to Higdon's colorful sound world while representing the melodic and harmonic music of the American South. It also represents the fiddling technique found in the Appalachian style of playing.
I. Soft Summers
II. Reel Time (5:52)
III. Gentle Waltz (9:39)
Performed by the Ying Quartet: www.ying4.com/
The recording is available with other commissioned works by Ned Rorem, Chen Yi, William Bolcom, and Augusta Read Thomas. Available through Quartz Music: quartzmusic.co...
Photograph: my grandfather's brother sitting on a porch (around 1910)

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