For 10 points, name this type of chamber work for two violins, a viola, and a cello.
Two John Adams works in this genre, as well as the piece Absolute Jest, were written for the Canadian ensemble St. Lawrence. A piece of this type composed on a trip to the Tucson desert uses only two pauses during four movements distinguished by "metric modulation." It's not a ballet, but John Cage wrote a four movement work of this type inspired by the four seasons in Indian philosophy. A piece in this genre serves as the third scene of an opera in the cycle Licht [liht] and calls for its players to perform in a (*) helicopter. Famous ensembles of this type include Guarneri and Kronos. Smetana's first piece of this type calls for a violin to sustain a high E to represent the ringing caused by onset of deafness, and is nicknamed "From My Life." For 10 points, name this type of chamber work for two violins, a viola, and a cello.
Two John Adams works in this genre, as well as the piece Absolute Jest, were written for the Canadian ensemble St. Lawrence.
string quartets [accept Helicopter String Quartet]