Thinking about Gloria Coates

Gloria Coates, discussing her 10th Quartet at my table, 4 4 16

Pleased to be contacted by an ensemble for performing advice about much-missed Gloria Coates’s wonderful 2nd Quartet.

In the decades we worked together Gloria and quartet built up a range of sounds and techniques and sounds particular to her music, which (and she was not alone in this), were not every exactly notated. Here’s very old recording of this ritualistic piece 

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