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"Alma Andalucia" (Soul of Andalucia)
Frank Cunha, mandolin; Joaquim Flores, guitar.
Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 12, 1939.

Alma Andalucia (1:59)

"A Florista" (The Flower Girl)
Alice Lemos Avila, vocals; Frank Cunha, mandolin; Joaquim Flores, guitar. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 12, 1939. In Portuguese.

A Florista (2:00)

"Triste fado" (Sad Fate)
Alice Lemos Avila, vocals; Frank Cunha, mandolin; Joaquim Flores, guitar.
Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on April 12, 1939.
In Portuguese.

Triste fado (2:36)

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Irving Fine: The String Quartet

Irving Fine: "My String Quartet, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, was completed in the spring of 1952. It was first performed in December 1952 by the Juilliard String Quartet at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.; and subsequently received its first public performance by the same group at a League of Composers concert at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, February 1953.

The work is approximately nineteen minutes in duration and consists of two movements (Allegro risoluto and Lento) each of which is essentially tripartite in form. The first movement's fast exposition and recapitulation are separated by a quieter contrasting middle section. In the second movement, the outer sections are slow and the middle section more agitated.

This is the first work in which I have employed the twelve-tone technique with some consistency. While all of the melodic material, the harmonies, and the figuration have been generated by the "row," the use of the "row" technique is fairly free; and the work as a whole is frankly tonal, C being the prevailing tonality."

The performance of the String Quartet offered here is a recording made during a set of live performances by the Juilliard String Quartet given at the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress on October 11 and 12, 1984, in a concert presented by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foundation in the Library of Congress.

First movement: Allegro risoluto (8:28)

Second movement: Lento (11:10)

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