Blueprint BLUEPRINT - DIGITAL DOWNLOAD - PDF:SCORE + PARTS While writing a string quartet

While writing a string quartet to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks

I have played this piece many times

" which was first synthesized by German paint producers in the early 18th century and later modified by others as an alternative to indigo

“The Ellipse” considers the notion of infinite repetition (I won’t deny a tiny Kierkegaard influence here)

or the thousandth time one paints

Blueprint BLUEPRINT - DIGITAL DOWNLOAD - PDF:SCORE + PARTS While writing a string quartetfor string quartet appears on the Aizuri Quartet's GRAMMY nominated album, Blueprinting The Aizuri Quartet's name comes from "aizuri e," a style of Japanese woodblock printing that primarily uses a blue ink. In the 1820s, artists in Japan began to import a particular blue pigment known as "Prussian blue," which was first synthesized by German paint producers in the early 18th century and later modified by others as an alternative to indigo. The story