UMS Live Session: Isidore String Quartet Plays Billy Childs' "Awakening"

In this digital-exclusive performance, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet performs music by trailblazing composer, jazz pianist, and six-time Grammy winner Billy Childs.
Childs composed his second string quartet, titled “Awakening," in the wake of his wife’s emergency hospitalization ten years ago due to a pulmonary embolism. It takes the listener through the shock and chaos of the emergency room, the disembodied sonic experience of machines during an extended hospitalization, and subsequent recovery and healing.
00:00 Introduction by Devin Moore
02:14 I. Wake Up Call
07:44 II. The White Room
14:50 III. Song of Healing
Filmed and recorded March 11, 2024 in Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor. Streaming on demand through August 7, 2024.

[@KarenWolff-m2m]

What a wonderful and interesting piece. Beautifully performed by the Isidore Quartet

[@voncilecampbell9171]

Beautiful!