Lewis: String Quartet 2.5. "Playing with Seeds"

Composer: George Lewis (1952-) Format: Score & Set of Parts Instrumentation: String Quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello) Work: String Quartet 2.5. "Playing with Seeds" Binding: ISMN: 9790577025995 Pages: 200 Description At the JACK Quartet's April 2022 premiere in New York City of his 20-minute string quartet, George Lewis said that he composed the piece "against complacency." Adding a subtitle ("Partial Truth") that contradicts itself, he challenges his performers to examine their interpretations of the quartet -- and, perhaps, to look at themselves. Lewis numbers his string quartets with .5 because Signifying Riffs, for strings and percussion, counts as half a quartet.