Enlisting
for bass-baritone and orchestra (3.3.3.3-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc.hp.str)
Text by Yang Jiong
Duration: 3.5’
Commissioned by iSING! International Young Artists Festival
Premiere: November 24, 2020 - Suzhou Grand Theatre - Suzhou, CN
Suzhou Symphony - Lin Daye, conductor
Enlisting sets a poem of the same title by Yang Jiong (650-c.695), a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The poem is a visceral call-to-arms full of flashing imagery of wartime and tumult. I sought to create sonic parallels of these stark images in sound, fixating at times on the intensity of conflict and the tense stillness of its shadow.
performance history
-January 7, 2023 - Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center - New York City, NY - Philadelphia Orchestra - Lio Kuokman, conductor
-January 6, 2023 - Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center - Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Orchestra - Lio Kuokman, conductor
-November 24, 2020 - Suzhou Concert Hall - Suzhou, CN - Suzhou Symphony - Lin Daye, conductor
program notes
Philadelphia Orchestra - Lio Kuokman, conductor
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