4 players: string quartet - Dear and Blackbirds

Ensemble: string quartet

Duration: 9 minutes

Commissioned by: BalletCollective

Premiered: NYU Skirball Center, NYC, New York

Published by: Yes Daedalus Music

Note:

A collaboration with choreographer Troy Schumacher and poet Cynthia Zarin, Dear and Blackbirds was inspired by Cynthia's poem of the same name, and choreographed for a pas de deux. Later arranged for oboe and string trio to be performed by Decoda.

Perusal score: view here