Gazers (Hawk vs. Chen Yi)

Score title: Gazers (Hawk vs. Chen Yi)
Composer: Zhou Long
More about the composer: Zhou Long
Date: 2009
Instrumentation: String quartet (violin (2), viola, cello)
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Program note: This intense work is inspired by a photograph of Zhou Long's wife Chen Yi staring face to face with a hawk that had landed near their house. It is filled with eerie slides and gradual dynamic changes with a fierce pizzicato section that leads to the work's climax. Gazers is a fine contemporary piece that explores different sounds of the string quartet instruments and is suitable for the college through professional levels.