Sometimes Bursting

Details:
for String Quartet
4 minutes

Written for and premiered by Del Sol String Quartet as part of their Joy Project.

When the frost comes out in the spring, and even in a thawing day in the winter, the sand begins to flow down the slopes like lava, sometimes bursting out through the snow and overflowing it where no sand was to be seen before. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden, "Spring"

Watch the premiere performance here.