Tag: lewis

  • VT045 | George Lewis: If we get what we want, what will it sound like?

    A few days before ars ad hoc presents the Portuguese premiere of his String Quartet 2.5 “Playing with Seeds” [2017] at the Serralves Museum, American composer George E. Lewis  (Chicago, 1952) shares some reflections on his long-standing fascination with the classical trope of depiction in American music. A professor in Columbia University’s Department of Music and the Edwin…