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Caroline Shaw's Love Letter To The String Quartet

On Orange, an album devoted entirely to her work, the young, Pulitzer-winning composer salutes a centuries-old genre.
Caroline Shaw's album, <em>Orange</em>, is devoted to music for string quartet.

's new album, , is a love letter to the string quartet. The North Carolina native burst onto the music scene in 2013, when she was the youngest composer to win a . She's still in her 30s and now,

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