| Each of the cafes along the edges of the square had a band, mostly quartets playing classical music or jazz or some show tunes. |
| This quartet is musically closer to the quartets of fellow Theresienstadt composers Ullmann and Schulhoff. |
| Brady Johnson has been singing in gospel quartets for many years and is a member of the Muddy River Quartet. |
| He counts work on Shostakovich's quartets with Rostropovich as among the high points of his musical life. |
| However, it is not a complete cycle, for it was recorded before Shostakovich had composed his 14th and 15th quartets. |
| He originally thought in terms of a theatrical setting for the whole cycle of fifteen quartets, but that proved too grandiose. |
