Chamber ensemble Erhu, Percussion, Pipa, alto Saxophone, baritone Saxophone, sop...(+)
Chamber ensemble Erhu,
Percussion, Pipa, alto
Saxophone, baritone
Saxophone, soprano
Saxophone, tenor
Saxophone
SKU:
PR.11441359S
For
Erhu, Pipa, Percussion
and Saxophone
Quartet. Composed by
Chen Yi. From Dunhuang
Fantasy. Premiere: NYC &
Philadelphia.
Contemporary. Full score
(study). With Standard
notation. Composed 2008.
36 pages. Duration 14
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41359S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.11441359S).
UPC:
680160582341. 8.5 x 11
inches.
Commissione
d by Music From China
ensemble and Prism
Saxophone Quartet, with a
grant provided by the New
York State Council on the
Arts in 2008. Premiered
in New York City,
February
2009.
Commissioned by
Music From China ensemble
and PRISM Saxophone
Quartet, with a
commissioning grant
provided by the New York
State Council on the Arts
in 2008.The imagination
of this music came from
the figures in the murals
carved in the Mogao Caves
in the ancient city
Dunhuang more than a
thousand years ago.Â
The name Dunhuang
originally meant
“prospering,
flourishing.â€Â
Lying at the western end
of the Gansu Corridor in
China, Dunhuang was very
important in the Silk
Road that carried new
thoughts, ideas, arts and
sciences to the East and
West in the ancient
time. The Mogao
Grottoes were built and
developed over 11
dynasties over more than
1,000 years (from the 4th
to 14th centuries), with
murals, sculptures,
wooden cave buildings and
books. It was really
the heyday of the art of
Dunhuang in the brilliant
Tang Dynasty (618-907).
 The murals depict
rolling dance gestures,
the flapping streamer
lines, the flying
melodies around the
clouds, and the fiery
rhythms in the sky!Â
They show the high spirit
and the strong power of
the people and their
society. All these
impressions are
translated into the
textures of the two
Chinese traditional
instrumental parts with
support from a set of
percussion instruments,
and the sound of a
saxophone quartet.Â
It’s mysterious,
vivid, colorful and
energetic, it brings us
to dream of the ancient
glory and yearn for the
future...—Chen
Yi.
Silk City
