This was the first CD of The Ying Quartet's acclaimed Life Music series. LifeMusic is a series of commissions from established or emerging American composers, and each work draws on a different aspect of American life. Made up of three brothers and a sister, The Ying Quartet has toured the world since its formation at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York in 1988. The Quartet won the Naumberg Chamber Music Award in 1993. Natives of Chicago, the Ying siblings began their career as an ensemble in 1992 in the farm town of Jesup, Iowa (population 2000) as the first recipients of a National Endowment for the Arts grant to support chamber music in rural America.

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1. Dark Vigil, for string quartet

2. Corner in Manhattan, for string quartet: Sixth Avenue in the Afternoon

3. Corner in Manhattan, for string quartet: Bedford Street at Night

4. Corner in Manhattan, for string quartet: Houston Street in the Morning

5. Love Letters, for string quartet: Prayer

6. Love Letters, for string quartet: Serenade

7. Love Letters, for string quartet: Limbo

8. Love Letters, for string quartet: Passions

9. The Village Street Quartet, for string quartet

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This was the first CD of The Ying Quartet's acclaimed Life Music series. LifeMusic is a series of commissions from established or emerging American composers, and each work draws on a different aspect of American life. Made up of three brothers and a sister, The Ying Quartet has toured the world since its formation at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York in 1988. The Quartet won the Naumberg Chamber Music Award in 1993. Natives of Chicago, the Ying siblings began their career as an ensemble in 1992 in the farm town of Jesup, Iowa (population 2000) as the first recipients of a National Endowment for the Arts grant to support chamber music in rural America.

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1. Dark Vigil, for string quartet

2. Corner in Manhattan, for string quartet: Sixth Avenue in the Afternoon

3. Corner in Manhattan, for string quartet: Bedford Street at Night

4. Corner in Manhattan, for string quartet: Houston Street in the Morning

5. Love Letters, for string quartet: Prayer

6. Love Letters, for string quartet: Serenade

7. Love Letters, for string quartet: Limbo

8. Love Letters, for string quartet: Passions

9. The Village Street Quartet, for string quartet

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This was the first CD of The Ying Quartet's acclaimed Life Music series. LifeMusic is a series of commissions from established or emerging American composers, and each work draws on a different aspect of American life. Made up of three brothers and a sister, The Ying Quartet has toured the world since its formation at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York in 1988. The Quartet won the Naumberg Chamber Music Award in 1993. Natives of Chicago, the Ying siblings began their career as an ensemble in 1992 in the farm town of Jesup, Iowa (population 2000) as the first recipients of a National Endowment for the Arts grant to support chamber music in rural America.

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1. Dark Vigil, for string quartet

2. Corner in Manhattan, for string quartet: Sixth Avenue in the Afternoon

3. Corner in Manhattan, for string quartet: Bedford Street at Night

4. Corner in Manhattan, for string quartet: Houston Street in the Morning

5. Love Letters, for string quartet: Prayer

6. Love Letters, for string quartet: Serenade

7. Love Letters, for string quartet: Limbo

8. Love Letters, for string quartet: Passions

9. The Village Street Quartet, for string quartet

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