Instrumentation subtitle: for string quartet

Description: Written in February 2021, this is accidentally a piece about the hope of better times coming ahead. Initially thought as an experimental stylistic hodgepodge (hence its title), the expressive meandering of the music unwittingly took me back to what is inevitably human: the overcoming of our sorrows through song.

Reading by the Aizuri Quartet, March 2021. Recorded by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio. Video editing by Daniel Montes de Oca.

Categories: Concert Music

Tags: string quartet, chamber music, polystylism, contemporary classical, hopeful, COVID-19, USC Thornton