Steve Schwartz:

>Scott Morrison writes, Re: Benjamin Lees:
>
>>But his concerto for string quartet and orchestra is masterly.  Now, I
>>wonder why no one had ever written one for this combination?
>
>Oh, but he has several predecessors, including Schulhoff, Schoenberg, and
>Martinu, to name merely the best known.

We might also note what I think was the original string quartet concerto,
by Louis Spohr.  There was once a recording of it by Ludwig Georg Jochum.
A friend told me that the Guarneri quartet once played it.

Michael Stein