Composers Datebook for March 29, 2019 - Sheng's "Silent Temple"

On today’s date in 2000, the Shanghai Quartet premiered Bright Sheng’s String Quartet No. 4 at the University of Richmond in Virginia. It was inspired by his visit to an abandoned Buddhist temple in northwest China.
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