String Quartet No.2 (1998/99)
Music and text by Helmut CYehring
Accompanying tape and sound-effects by GOGH Surround Music Production
Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet
6th Chamber adapted from Song No.8 from LIVE by Iris ter Schiphorst
Technical specifications:
For all performances a CD player is required, with loudspeakers
appropriate to the venue. For the sound effects, a ZOOM studio 1201
is also necessary. The texts included on the accompanying CD are not
available in written form. Performance instructions are clearly
indicated in the score (in German; in the parts in German and English).
Following apparently relentless bullying from her classmates,
an eight-year-old schoolgirl in Great Britain hung herself on a jumprope.
According to a newspaper report in The Independent on Tuesday, the police
have found no evidence of a criminal act. The schoolgirf, identified
as Marie Bentham, was often teased by her classmates and had refused
to return to schoot on Monday following the Christmas holiday.
London, 5 January 1999 (dpa, AFP)
