Name: String Quartet by daniel fox composer
Duration: 14 min 22 s
Description: Performed by Mivos Quartet. Recorded and mixed by Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie.

i. al gran cherchio d’ombra
ii. che non la move, se non come petra
iii. il crespo giallo e ’l verde
iv. e ’l colpo suo non può sanar per erba
v. innamorata, com’anco fu donna
vi. ben ritorneranno i fiumi a’ colli
coda: la fa sparer, com’uom petra sott’erba

i. the great arc of shadow
ii. she is unmoved, no more than stone
iii. the curling yellow and green
iv. her wounds cannot be healed with herbs
v. as much in love as ever a woman
vi. surely rivers will return to the hills
coda: making one vanish, as a stone under grass

performed by curtis macomber and steve beck

rima (2021) for violin and piano [after a sestina by Dante]

Performed by Mivos Quartet. Recorded and mixed by Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie.

String Quartet

Daniel Fox is a composer and a mathematician whose compositions have been performed by Mivos Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Either/Or, Momenta Quartet, Contemporaneous, Imri Talgam, and Miranda Cuckson. His writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Perspectives of New Music, Van Magazine, Title Magazine, and Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Fox’s compositions have been described as “strongly imagined” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) and his piano improvisations were featured in Gabriela Vainsencher’s limited edition video, "Reconstruction", which premiered at the Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France and is held in the museum’s permanent collection. Currently in the doctoral program for composition at the CUNY Graduate Center, his dissertation is titled "Aftersound: Acoustic Resonance in the Music of Alvin Lucier and Morton Feldman". He is currently studying composition with Suzanne Farrin. His former teachers include Jason Eckardt and Maurice Wright.

String Quartet

daniel fox composer

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