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Ms. Linto
(2014-09-30)
Ms. Linto is inspired by a famous Taiwan legend called Ms. Linto. This story happened in Tainan. Linto who is a widow and raises three kinds alone, was tricked out of her life saving by a smooth talking handsome man, ACSi ...
Charles Mingus Played Bass?: Rediscovering a Jazz Soloist Through Transcription
(2014-09-30)
Bassist and composer Charles Mingus (1922-1979) was one of jazz music's most
influential and prolific artists. Both his instrumental and compositional abilities were highly
regarded during his life, and remain so today. ...
Reconsidering George Gershwin and an American in Paris as an extension of the romantic tradition
(2014-07-28)
George Gershwin's legacy as an American composer is fraught with contradictions. He is classified primarily as a composer of popular music by many despite his relatively successful attempts to enter the classical world. ...
Archistrategos
(2014-07-17)
A few years ago I became interested in Christian Orthodoxy, a faith tradition as
old as my own -- Roman Catholicism -- yet unfamiliar to most in the Western world. I
was seduced by the mysticism and sensuality of Orthodoxy, ...
Piano concerto for piano and full orchestra
(2014-07-29)
The first movement of my Piano Concerto presents my unique methods of
developing motives. There are two main motives that are used to construct almost all
material in the piece. I also have two main methods of developing ...
Narong Prangcharoen and Thai cross-cultural fusion in contemporary composition
(2014-07-30)
Narong Prangcharoen (b.1973) has become one of the leading Asian classical composers since he won a number of international awards and received numerous commissions from major orchestras and individual distinguished ...
Gumiho: how I tried to give up eating human livers and love someone: an opera in two acts
(2014-08-28)
Gumiho (pronounced goo-mi-ho) is an opera based on an ancient Korean folktale about
a 5,000 year old fox-monster with nine tails whose only source of nourishment is human
livers. The complete opera will be in two acts ...
Fit to Live, a flexible form concerto for wind ensemble
(2014-08-28)
This work is a flexible form concerto for trumpet and wind ensemble. It
consists of several fixed sections, or modules, that can be put together in several
specific pre-determined ways to create various versions of the ...
Three Images of the Vicissitude of Weather : a chamber orchestra
(2014)
Three Images of the Vicissitude of Weather is a piece for chamber orchestra and consists
with three movements (Darkness Before a Storm, The Chaos, and One Fine Morning) by
describing images of changing weather. The piece ...
Time, Unfolding
(2014-09-30)
time, unfolding was written for performance in the 70th Annual Composers
Conference at Wellesley College. It explores the slow unfolding of musical materials
and how it affects our perception of musical time. The idea ...
Lapse of time, for flute, clarine, violin, cello, percussion and piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2014)
The inspiration for this piece came from some initial sounds in my mind. The music is combination of these sounds, which sometimes mix well and sometimes collide. In order to realize these sounds, I created three primary ...
Flourishes (2012.13) for chamber orchestra
(2014)
flourishes (2012.13) for chamber orchestra was composed for the Summer
Music Institute at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. The title serves as
a description for the active woodwind parts and large scale ...
364 Days: Suite for Jazz Orchestra
(2014)
364 Days: Suite for Jazz Orchestra was composed for a standard seventeen-piece (5/4/4/4) jazz orchestra. The suite is comprised of five pieces- And I Think of You; Goodnight; What Ifs; 364 Days; The Dreamer and The Realist ...
Naya Jeevan, concerto for double bass and wind ensemble
(2014-07-17)
Naya Jeevan, meaning new life in Hindi, is a twenty-four minute, two-movement
concerto for double bass and wind ensemble. While the two movements vary drastically in
mood, texture, and tone, they both explore intensity ...
Berri
(2014-07-17)
Berri is a dramatic musical composition for large
chamber ensemble (Piccolo, Flute, Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Bass, Piano, and Percussion) and narrator. The text for the narrator is an original ...
Music From the Mountain For Di and Orchestra
(2014)
After studying abroad, I have started my research on the comparison between the western and the traditional Chinese orchestras. The idea of forming the traditional Chinese orchestra came from the influence of the "Total ...