Poignant Sounds String quartets by Peter Garland - heard by PATRIC STANDFORD '... remote and apparently disengaged ...'

Peter Garland was born 1952 in Portland, Maine and is acknowledged not only as a very individual composer -- his works include songs with accordion, pieces for clarinet and marimba, various mixes of woodwind, brass and percussion, a symphony for flute, clarinet and trombone, and 'War of Words' for two performers with rubber flip-flops, metal pipes, glasses and spoons -- but also as a travel writer and musicologist with a special interest in traditional American music, the music of Mexico and a study of Southwestern Indian and Hispanic musical traditions. As a publisher he produced a large collection of contemporary American music as well as six volumes of Conlon Nancarrow's player piano Studies. But the CD seems to assume everyone knows all this -- it doesn't tell us any of it...

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