San Jose [California] Mercury News: “John Adams’s highly anticipated String Quartet received its West Coast premiere Sunday afternoon at Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Auditorium, and it is a stunner. Performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, with Adams on hand to introduce it, the piece emerged one of his most brilliant and inventive masterworks.… Commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts, the Juilliard School and Banff Centre, String Quartet is Adams’s first full-size quartet without electronics.”