Berkeley-born Gabriella Smith, hailed by the New York Times for her “euphoric” ecological works, wrote this irresistible quartet in 2015 for the Aizuri Quartet and Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation. The title comes from a remark attributed to Cézanne: “The day will come when a single, freshly observed carrot will start a revolution.” Fiddle grooves, Baroque fragments, percussive chops and slithering glissandi collide in ten minutes of foot-tapping, genre-blind exuberance.
