Arthur Berger

He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. " Perle further praises his String Quartet: "in the quartet as in Berger's earlier works and in most of the great music of our Western heritage timbre texture dynamics rhythm and form are elements of a musical language whose syntax and grammar are essentially derived from pitch relations. George Perle has described his "keen and sophisticated musical intellect" and praised "his serial music [for being] as far removed from current fashionable trends as his diatonic music was a few years ago.