This quartet for English horn, bassoon, violin, and cello begins and ends with a very simple plaintive melody, which each instrument gets to play and to accompany. The middle section is relatively light-hearted. A performance by Karen Wright, bassoon, Steve Glanz, violin, Susan Groff, cello, and me on English horn, recorded at the College of Marin on May 20 can be seen on YouTube at https://youtu.be/rYX-voMCLng. The Listen button gets you to the YouTube recording. You can hear and see an outstanding performance of this, and four others of my pieces, by top-notch Bulgarian professional musicians in a concert at the American Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, June 19, 2020. It was arranged for by my son Justin, a Foreign Service Officer and deputy chief of mission, and his colleagues at the Embassy. The link to the YouTube recording is below.
Elegy
