Chamber Music Flute, Percussion, Piano, Zheng SKU: PR.114409470 For Fl...(+)
Chamber Music Flute,
Percussion, Piano, Zheng
SKU: PR.114409470
For Flute, Zheng,
Piano, and
Percussion. Composed
by Chen Yi. Christmas and
Holiday. World Premiere:
Boston. Contemporary. Set
of Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1993. 15+2+2
pages. Duration 8
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40947.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114409470).
UPC:
680160014200. 8.5 x 11
inches.
The idea of
Song in Winter came from
the imagination of the
pine and the bamboo. They
are so persistent and
dauntless. Standing in
the frigid winter, they
are evergreens. In
Chinese paintings, they
are featured characters;
in Chinese literature,
they are praised as
symbols against evil
influences and unhealty
trends. Chen Yi admires
their beautiful
appearances and their
strong spirit and
expresses their feelings
through their music,
which combines Chinese
and Western musical
materials and medium. The
silence between the
gestures is like the
space in brush painting
and calligraphy.
Song
in Winter is a trio
written for harpsichord,
dizi (bamboo flute) and
zheng (Chinese
zither). My idea for
this piece came from the
pine and the bamboo.Â
Such persistent and
dauntless trees!Â
Standing in the frigid
winter, they are
evergreens. In
Chinese paintings, they
are the featured
characters, while in
Chinese literature, they
are praised as symbols
against evil influences
and unhealthy trends.Â
I admire their beautiful
appearances and their
strong spirit. I
express my feelings
through my music, which
combines Chinese and
Western musical materials
and media. Using the
harpsichord, an old
Western instrument, and
the zheng and dizi, two
old Chinese instruments,
I mix keyboard, plucking
and blowing instruments
into a whole. The
silence between the
gestures is like the
space in Chinese brush
painting and
calligraphy. Although
I have been living in a
western society for seven
years, I have found my
thinking closely linked
with Chinese arts. I
merged them into my
musical language in the
trio. Song in Winter
was commissioned and
inspired by Prof. Joyce
Lindorff, the winner of
the Pro Musicis
Foundation's
international
competition, for her
March 23, 1994 concert at
Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall in New
York, sponsored by the
Foundation. It is
dedicated to Ms. Lindorff
and Ms. Susan Cheng, the
founder and executive
director of Music From
China, who has been
enthusiastically
supporting Chinese new
music in New York for
many years. The work
has been recorded on the
album “Sparkle:
Chamber Music of Chen
Yi†on CRI,
released in New York in
1999. The trio has
also been adapted for
quartet: flute, zheng
(Chinese zither), piano
and percussion, for ALEA
III, for the premiere
concert in Feb. 4, 1994,
in Boston.—Chen
Yi(born in China,
1953).