It?s enough to make a purist squirm: a cellist playing the scroll or the tuning peg of his instrument, a violinist drawing his bow slowly from the bridge all the way to the fingerboard.
….The group is known for both promoting established, living composers ? they?ll play a piece by UW-Madison professor Laura Schwendinger in the Nov. 10 concert ? and helping students develop and annotate some of the unusual styles of playing that can emerge in contemporary composition. At times, reading through student work, the quartet has found a piece for their permanent repertoire.