Instrumentation: 2 vns, vla, vc
Duration: 12:00
The title was originally given to me by my son, who at the time of writing this piece was three and a half years old. I was looking for a way to describe the motion of the musical lines in this piece constantly striving upwards.
When he threw a ball high into the air he would say it went "up to the sky". Serendipitously, around the same time, I found this poem in one of his poetry books and borrowed a line from it for the title. I feel the poem evokes the mood of this quartet.
From
FIREFLY
I think
if you flew
up to the sky
beside the moon,
you would
twinkle
like a star.
Li Po