YURTWEET: THE 139 STEPPES
string quartet
(2015)
1'
Written for the Signum Quartet as part of their residency with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, in which they launched their musical tweet project - pieces by many composers of 140 notes or less. My programme-tweet reads:
Outer Mongolia: sunset - half-remembered half-imagined morinxuur (horse-head fiddle) tune
First performed 2 October 2015 by the Signum Quartet, Wolfensohn Hall, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ
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