The Macgibbon String Quartet:
Margot MacKibbon , Lorraine du Val
Anatole Mines , Lilly Phillips
Akio Yashiro, one of the most promising young Japanese composers of his generation, studied music in Tokyo and m Paris. His String Quartet (1954-5) has four movements: Adagio ma non troppo; a short movement marked
Prestissimo in which the strings are muted; and Andante espressivo leading to Allegro giocoso.