Violin and String Quartet

On the bottom right hand corner of page 54 of the manuscript score there is a date...6-7-85, indicating an abrupt end to the composition, though there is no logical reason why the music should stop. Listening to the flow of sound itself, there’s no sense of closure, or resolution, not a conclusion, hardly even a cessation. It’s more an interruption, a tear in the fabric. How was it decided? Probably, simply through intuition. Note: intuition, however, is anything but simple, especially in Feldman’s case where it is acutely, painstakingly, thoroughly – and personally – reasoned. Art Lange