My first string quartet, imaginatively called String
Quartet No. 1, is about small worlds. Cello, viola, and
violin II are easy. Violin I requires familiarity with
fifth position.
The four movements focus on four small or contained
worlds. Movement one is about a duck pond I used to
gaze at from my office window. Proud mother ducks would
swim followed by their ducklings, sad ducks with no
ducklings were also swimming, predatory birds and a few
geese would drop by and disrupt matters fro...(+)
My first string quartet, imaginatively called String
Quartet No. 1, is about small worlds. Cello, viola, and
violin II are easy. Violin I requires familiarity with
fifth position.
The four movements focus on four small or contained
worlds. Movement one is about a duck pond I used to
gaze at from my office window. Proud mother ducks would
swim followed by their ducklings, sad ducks with no
ducklings were also swimming, predatory birds and a few
geese would drop by and disrupt matters from time to
time. The duck pond pond was their small world.