John Cage's "String Quartet in Four Parts"

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Cage's 1950 work deals with the traditional Indian notions of the nine permanent emotions and the seasonal cycle. The composition is disarmingly simple, comprised of a very small collection of sonorities set to an unwavering rhythmic structure, depicting a season within each movement.

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