Description

• Composer: Missy Mazzoli (1980-)
• Format: Score & Set of Parts
• Instrumentation: String Quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello)
• Work: You Know Me From Here (2012)
• Binding:
• Pages: None

Description

When Carol Cole asked me to write this piece for the Kronos Quartet I immediately imagined a twenty-minute musical journey homeward, a trek through chaos (I. Lift Your Fists) and loneliness (II. Everything That Rises Must Converge) to a place of security and companionship (III. You Know Me From Here). This is music about loss, but in the most positive sense; it speaks of the loss of our old selves, the jumps into the unknown, the leaps of faith we all must make and the beautiful moments when we find solace in a person, an idea, or in music itself. The music itself shifts constantly from earthy, gritty gestures to soaring, leaping melodies that rarely land where we expect. — Missy Mazzoli