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The Kitchen & The Pit

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MUSIC OF THE WEEK

New York Craziness – Quayle’s String Quartet No. 2

Quayle musically characterizes his life in New York as a graduate student at NYU, including a labour strike, the struggles with completing a Ph.D., and the chaos of the city all in one quartet.

Matthew Quayle: String Quartet No. 2, "Sweet Insanity"

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