related works
Secret Compartment : for toy piano’s & music boxes / Wilma Pistorius
Genre:
Unknown
Etude : for string quartet, 1983/85 / Reinbert de Leeuw
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
String Quartet Nº 4 / Jo van den Booren
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vln vla vc
Marcia funebre : for string quartet / Fania Chapiro
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vn vla vc
composition
Jitterbug Quartet : for string quartet / Wilma Pistorius
Other authors:
Pistorius, Wilma
(Composer)
Description:
‘Jitterbug Quartet’ is inspired by one of the composer’s favourite novels, ‘Jitterbug Perfume’ by Tom Robbins; a story about perfume, immortality, and the meaning of life. The piece is about dignified wildness (as seen in the jitterbug, a swing dance from the early 20th century), about outrageous and uncompromising sweetness (as smelled in jasmine), and about beatific lightness (as felt by a feather drifting delicately on the wind).