LARK QUARTET: Composing America <BR> BRIDGE 9423One might be forgiven for finding the title Composing America a tad ambitious; it begs a number of questions, not the least of which is just whose America is this? The music on this varied, imaginative CD answers that question definitively: this is an America of vital, forcefully argued concert music with roots deep in the American vernacular. Each work, to varying degrees, presents the listener with a distinct transformation of the popular and folk

John Leisenring

This fascinating disc features the lost generation of American composers

Broadway shows and television and movie appearances

A string quartet seemed perfect

International Record Review (IRR Outstanding Award)

Jerusalem Symphony

in the premiere recording of John Kirkpatrick's final edition of the work

UK-based composer Arlene Sierra

Crystal Shadows

Michaela Fukacova

Andantino in A major

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