Finneas started writing the music and brought on composer David Campbell “to notate and write what I had written and then ...

The string quartet writing in the suite — the four-CD recording was a finalist for the music Pulitzer in 2013 — gave most listeners their first chance to hear his work in that vein ...

“He sent me a bunch of music that he loved as references, and it was mostly string quartets,” Finneas says. “I was immediately like, ‘Oh my God, I don’t know how to write music for a ...