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Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet was created in 1956.
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Adventures in Modern Recording was created on 1981-11-11.
It's adapted as "England's Carol," on The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra and MJQ at the Music Inn, Vol 1, amongst others.
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They didn't "die". Their members just wanted to do other things outside the limitations of the quartet. They had the occasional reunion, really to satisfy public demand, but then finally called it a day.
String quartets have been composed in a number of styles or genres, for example classical, romantic and modern. If you are trying to find a certain type of piece for a string quartet, many works in many different styles have been composed or arranged to be played by a string quartet.
In 1900, Zoltan Kodály entered the University of Budapest to study modern languages, and he also began to study music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He earned a PhD in philosophy and linguistics.
Yes, in fact there is a growing number of special "string quartet cover albums" released over the last couple of years that have a string quartet do renditions of songs and deep cuts from popular artists and bands. Most notable ones are string quartet tributes to Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Metallica, Nirvana and U2.
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The CD was originally invented for audio music and used an analog recording method that is incompatible with the modern digital recording method that can be used for both audio and digital.
They played often at the Royal Festival Hall, the New Victoria Theatre and, probably other venues as well.