Track of the Month: July

David Post's String Quartet No. 4,
​"Three Photographs of Abelardo Morel" (2005) 

You're listening to the Hawthorne String Quartet perform the third movement of this string quartet inspired by three photos by Abelardo Morell, a piece commissioned by Terezín Music Foundation for festivities honoring the 300th birthday in 2005 of the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts.
"I found the prospect of using visual images as a springboard for musical composition exciting. To sweeten the pot, Abe's images were immediately compelling and congenial. His work is dynamic and forceful, with unusual, startling juxtapositions, and often show familiar objects in novel and unfamiliar ways, so the viewer isn't able to identify them immediately. The images reveal themselves over time, much in the same say as music unfolds over time. I found the process of being drawn into his re-imagined world to be very conducive to producing musical ideas.
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"We selected three photographs and I wrote a brief movement for each, pieces that could stand alone, but also be heard together as a coherent whole. My intent was not to 'translate' the visual image into sound — an impossible task at best — but rather to capture a state of feeling that it evoked, as well as write a piece that could be heard without any specific reference to the photographs. The result is the three brief movements of the Fourth Quartet."

—David L. Post
This Quartet is available on this CD from TMF.
​Call us at 857-222-8263 if you'd like a copy. $10.
Picture
Map in Sink, photo by Abelardo Morell — the inspiration for the music you are hearing.