The Third String Quartet (2008) was commissioned by Chamber Music America for the Daedalus Quartet, and was premiered at Cleveland in December 2009. The work is in one movement approximately 21 minutes long.The string quartet is for me the most personal and psychological of musical media. The Third Quartet inhabits a world of abrupt mood changes, passionate urgings, quiet reveries, fantastical gestures, and sudden reminiscences. This turbulent world nonetheless has a discernible overall shape. A...