in honour of april fools

the best trick of them all is optimism

the regular set-up of things getting better

like clockwork, kicks in on the hour

the punchline, every thing always is worse

classic, gets me every time

pessimism is the worst trick

pessimism is all premise, no punchline

it doesn't work if it all just keeps

getting worse

String Quartet movement

My string quartet writing tends to be pretty focussed on the quartet aspect, rather than on the individuality of the musicians, so I wanted to try and write a quartet that highlighted this more. This is in the spirit of a slow movement within that quartet, although I might be trying to reframe the movement structure and haven't quite figured that out yet. If you know of any works that might be what I'm going for, please throw them my way~ ty ty