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String Quartet No. 1 "The Impossible": I. Open Hydrant (1987)
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String Quartet No. 1 "The Impossible": II. Walking On The 3rd Rail (1987)
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String Quartet No. 1 "The Impossible": III. Ron Visits The Polymer Lounge (1987)
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String Quartet No. 1 "The Impossible": IV. For His Bad Self (1987)
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String Quartet No. 1 "The Impossible": V. She Put My Head Under The Water
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String Quartet No. 2, "Bambaataa Variations": I. His Legs Wobble (1992)
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String Quartet No. 2, "Bambaataa Variations": II. X-Linked Planet (1992)
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String Quartet No. 2, "Bambaataa Variations": III. Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1992)
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String Quartet No. 2, "Bambaataa Variations": IV. Mudhead From Planet Xyy (1992)
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String Quartet No. 2, "Bambaataa Variations": V. Afrika Variations (1992)
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East St. Louis 1968
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String Quartet No. 3, "The Essential": I. Sample & Hold (2011)
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String Quartet No. 3, "The Essential": II. Fractal Variation, "Benoit Meets Arnold In 5 Dimensions" (2011)
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String Quartet No. 3, "The Essential": III. Fourier Transformations (2011)
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String Quartet No. 3, "The Essential": IV. Integral (2011)
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String Quartet No. 3, "The Essential": V. 1st Derivative (2011)
Item UPC: 638361875205
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Label: MULA
ABOUT THE ALBUM
On the first CD, the PUBLIQuartet perform each of Soldier's three full string quartets, each in five movements, written between 1988 and 2011. The second quartet, Bambaataa Variations (1992), was inspired by the early hip-hop of the time, and uses themes that Afrika Bambaataa used that he in turn took from other sources, such as riffs from Kraftwerk, as well as a theme from Muddy Waters. The final set of variations is on a theme by Soldier that ends with a joke on how to end an extended piece. East St. Louis 1968 (1999) for quartet and recording is a portrait of Soldier's experiences growing up in that area. The Essential Quartet (Quartet #3, 2011) is constructed from the second movement of Arnold Schoenberg's second quartet. The second and third CDs represent a wide variety of compositions and arrangements by Soldier for his quartet in the 80's and 90's, for which he played second violin. The Soldier String Quartet, sometimes labeled in the press as "The Ramones of Classical Music, " was the original cross-platform string quartet. Soldier's compositions incorporated R&B, punk rock, deep blues, hip-hop and noise into polyphonic chamber music, and that direction reached it's extreme with this repertoire. Quartet members included Regina Carter, Todd Reynolds and others who have since continued on some of these paths.
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