Tantric Psalms (1997, rev. 1999) for mezzo-soprano and string quartet by Thomas Oboe Lee Sheet Music for String Quartet at Sheet Music Direct
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Tantric Psalms (1997, rev. 1999) for mezzo-soprano and string quartet
by Thomas Oboe Lee String Quartet - Digital Sheet Music

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Program notes: Mark Ludwig came to me in the spring of 1997 wondering if I would be interested in writing a piece of music for the Hawthorne String Quartet that would bring to the attention of the world what many Tibetans are experiencing as exiles or political prisoners under the rule of the Peoples Republic of China. I told him I would be. So, he loaned me several books on Tibet, the Dalai Lamas, a video about a Tibetan ethnomusicologist who is currently in prison for "spying," and a few recordings of Tibetan folk music. I found the material very intriguing and fascinating. And toward the end of a five-week residency at the American Academy in Rome that summer, I completed the first draft of Tantric Psalms. The work was completed a week later at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1999, I revisited the score and added a voice so that the beautiful Tibetan chants and prayers can be invoked.

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