Friday, March 26, 2004, 7:30 p.m.
Pre-concert discussion with composer Jeffery Cotton at 6:45 p.m.
"Call and Response," the Cypress String Quartet’s outreach and concert series, was born of a commitment to present music as a dynamic and ongoing process of inspiration reaching across musical, social and historical boundaries. Working together with music presenters and educators, the Cypress creates a public forum for diverse communities to share the universal meaning of music. Each season, The Cypress premieres a commissioned string quartet written in response to older pieces. This season a new quartet by Boston-based composer Jeffery Cotton responds to Haydn’s String Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5 and Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor, K.421. Cotton’s work has been called luscious and logical, affectionate and humorous — "something truly different." New York Times.