Skies Now Are Skies (String Quartet No.7), Op.64

Category		Chamber Music > String Quartets
Composed		1994
Duration (approx)		18 minutes
Parts		Tenor, string quartet
Text Author(s)		D.H. Lawrence, E.E. Cummings, The Song of Solomon
Text Language		English
Related Works		Skies Now Are Skies (orchestral)
Publisher		Faber Music
Commission		Coull String Quartet for their 21st anniversary season with funds from West Midlands Arts and the Cargill Fund.
First performance		15 May 1995
Venue		Warwick University
Orchestra / Ensemble		Coull String Quartet
Soloists / Players		Martyn Hill (tenor)
Review		Anthony Bye, Financial Times, 10 June 1995
		…the opening instrumental introduction was quite stunningly conceived and sustained and the ending simply magical, an apt metaphor for E.E. Cummings' image of love as “time’s mightiest dream”.