Facing Death Louis Andriessen

Kristian Winther, Cameron Hill violins Leah Zweck viola Dan Curro cello Melbourne, 2009 Louis Andriessen writes: In 1989 when I was teaching in Buffalo, Miles Davis Autobiography was published. While reading it, I suddenly knew what the subject should be of my piece for the Kronos Quartet early bebop licks and especially the work of Charlie Parker. I wanted to do the impossible bebop is not at all idiomatic for string instruments. But bebop had been an important influence on my musical deve