Quartet for Drugs of Our Time
  These are program notes for a musical composition which evokes the interplay of tobacco, speed, heroin, and cocaine- each with its own "voice"- in the postwar San Francisco scene.
  Quartet Notes
  Notes for a brief synthesizer quartet , with the "voices" representing the ebb and flow of heroin, cocaine, speed, and tobacco over the last 50 years. (The quartet was commissioned from Don Seaver, and first performed in December 1995.)
   

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