Landslide - Fleetwood Mac arranged for string quartet by Greg Woodward

Landslide - the first of a trilogy of Fleetwood Mac Songs I've been tasked with arranging for an upcoming candlelight concert. As a Gen X/Gen Y cusper, this song exists in my head in the form of its cover by Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins far more strongly than its original version. Dissecting the song for this arrangement I found myself constantly having to challenge my assumptions about parts that I heard one way in my head but were actually completely different, and in the end I think it's a bit of a composite version. (The less said about the [Dixie] Chicks version the better.) Bringing a song or a piece back around to the intro in a tweaked form is a very simple way of adding poignancy - we start as children, and end as children transfigured by the memory of being gods. This approach seemed really appropriate for this classic song about the landslide of changes and loss that life throws at you and the saving grace of companionship, a blessing that can so easily also be taken away at whim.