Sailing to Byzantium


Date of Composition: 2016

Duration: 14'

Category: Large Ensemble (6 or more players)

Instrumentation: String Quartet, Piano (4-Hand)


The title, Sailing to Byzantium, is that of a Yeats poem, a reflection on ageing and the search for permanance.

Score and parts available from Theodore Front (www.tfront.com)


Sailing to Byzantium
Quartet 121 / Thomas Feng, Huizi Zhang, piano / Michael Massoud, conductor