About the piece

Written for live performance during the 2012 Fashion on the Square runway show in San Francisco. It evokes the swirling of falling cherry blossoms and liveliness of people gathered below with playful rhythms and imitative falling patterns.

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Instrumentation

String Quartet

Duration

11 minutes

year written

2012

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