Punctum viola These are contrasted with the

These are contrasted with the delicate

Plan & Elevation

While writing a string quartet to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks

and it evokes something grand

(program note by Caroline Shaw

Punctum viola These are contrasted with thefor string quartet 2009 revised 2013 workshopped in 2009 and 2010 with the Hudson and Franklin Quartets first performance at the Greenwich House, NYC (April 2010) revised in 2013 for the Brentano Quartet at Princeton University 830 Punctum is essentially an exercise in nostalgia, inspired by Roland Barthes description of the unexpected in photographs and in particular by his extended description of the elusive Winter Garden photo in his 1980 book