Albany TR 1340

Joseph Summer: The Garden of Forking Paths – Kalmia String Quartet

This String Quartet by the American composer Joseph Summer is a musical interpretation of the named stories of the pre-eminent twentieth-century fabulist Jorge Luis Borges. Born in 1956, Summer studied at Oberlin and was on the faculty at Carnegie-Mellon. He has written four comic operas based on the stories of The Decameron. These works are part of a planned cycle of seven operas, which follows the exploits of a half dozen characters over the course of a week in an imagined fourteenth-century Naples. He is the founder of The Shakespeare Concerts, his music inspired by Shakespeare appearing on three previously released recordings on Albany Records.