Elena Ruehr

An evocation of the sound world of Schubert's Sonatas, especially channeling Schubert's D959. The references to Schubert are sometimes direct, but often altered in slight ways to evoke the dreamy sens...

J'ai grandi dans une très belle région du monde, la péninsule de Keweenaw, dans la péninsule supérieure du Michigan, qui était autrefois un centre d'extraction du cuivre et qui est aujourd'hui une mer...

Long Pond est un magnifique petit lac de Cape Cod, où j'ai passé beaucoup de temps. Je voulais écrire un texte qui évoquerait ces quelques jours passés dans cet endroit précis. Le texte commence par l...

En mars 2023, j'ai entendu un concert de l'Orchestre symphonique de Boston consacré aux Chants douloureux de Górecki, et cela m'a rappelé le célèbre Adagio pour cordes de Barber. À l'époque, j'écrivai...

Elena Ruehr's first string quartet is an exploration of four distinct and storied ideas. The first movement, 'Patterns, ' may be performed on its own, and combines traditions of form, rhythm, and moti...

All four movements of this quartet have a basis in ancient traditional music from different parts of the world. The first movement's melody was composed on a small toy flute, making use of Middle East...

Each year the Cypress String Quartet selects two works from the standard quartet repertoire and commissions a third work based on inspiration derived from two older works. String Quartet No. 4 was wri...

A string quartet in ten movements based on the novel by Ann Patchett (Bel Canto), commissioned by and dedicated to the Cypress String Quartet. This piece takes one through the novel, develops its char...

Written for the Cypress String Quartet, partially commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, and dedicated to Todd Donovan. If there were a nickname for this quartet, it might be the 'Romantic Quartet. ' A...