Isaac Shankler

Isaac Schankler

it was never ok

(2021)

for string quartet

i. wwyjlmd

ii. aaaa

iii. isolation/congregation

iv. tempest

From Isaac Schankler

“it was never okay is a sort of fumbling attempt to reckon with my musical childhood in the context of an awful year of adulthood.

The music of the past is put into a centrifuge and ground down to its component parts. There is helpless anger, deep grief, petty frustrations, Pyrrhic victories, suspect triumphs, delusions of grandeur, magical thinking, digging through garbage, compartmentalization, coping mechanisms, self-deception, decluttering, excision, survival.

It was written for the Friction Quartet.”