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• ...An elegy for a deceased friend and for victims of 9/11, Tower's string quartet follows a clear-cut musical and emotional trajectory. Fast, choppy, restless music (echoing that of the Shostakovich Eighth String Quartet) expresses pain and anger; slower, more lyrical music speaks of consolation. The two musics are integrated with a seamlessness...
  John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune
• Joan Tower’s chamber music has much the same emotional intensity and gestural ferocity as her orchestral works. Her primarily angular harmonic language, with its predominantly dissonant cast, evokes a sense of agitation bordering on rage...In Memory (in a stunning rendition by the Tokyo String Quartet) begins quietly...then builds to a gripping climax. The music’s emotions are particularly raw and acute, as the composer was inspired by the death of a close friend, and then the 9/11 attacks that occurred shortly after.
  Victor Carr, Jr., ClassicToday.com
• The Cavani String Quartet applied their special brand of expressive magic to In Memory, in which still and pleading sighs rub disturbing shoulders with Shostakovich-like vehemence. This is a work of intense beauty as well as searing anger.
  Donald Rosenberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ms. Tower's new quartet In Memory (her second) is a passionate work, written in memory of a friend who died last summer, and tinted as well by the Sept. 11 attacks, which occurred during the composition. The language here is accessible and unambiguous, with modulations of melancholy, grief and anger that were all conveyed powerfully in the Tokyo players' vigorous reading.
  Allan Kozinn, The New York Times