Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra ...

Undoubtedly the most performed composition in the Lees catalogue, it received brilliant performances with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin and members of the Amici Quartet. The orchestra, offering a program of Lees, Martin and Rozsa, drew the following from James Wierzbicki, writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "The Lees and Rozsa concertos are especially powerful statements. They are richly thematic and based on solid tonal centers, yet their conservative elements make them seem hardly old-fashioned for their time, and their expressive content is more often intense than lyrical. And both of them give considerable independence to the featured players. In the Lees, the spotlit material is handled not so much by a string quartet as a foursome of soloists."

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