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Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Wind Ensemble
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
I wrote CONCERTO FOR TENOR SAXOPHONE AND WIND ENSEMBLE in the tradition of
the grand concerti of the nineteenth century, but incorporating a modern sense of harmony and
rhythm. The spirit of the piece is very in the ...
Scissors for Orchestra
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
As a composer originally from South Korea who favors Western musical languages
as a medium for composition, it has always been my passion to create works that integrate
my Korean culture in some way. Sometimes I combine ...
A Remedy for Death For Mixed Ensemble
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
A Remedy for Death is a three-movement composition for mixed ensemble,
which is inspired by the love of God in the bible.
The first movement, “The Fall of Man”, is based on the book of Genesis
chapter ...
Daughter of Bird and Earth
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The single movement symphonic poem Daughter of Bird and Earth draws its inspiration from my own long poem in modern Chinese, The Resurrection of Poems, which narrates an imaginary woman’s life journey, both internally and ...
Mathias and the Storm for Orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
There is a piece of folklore that is pervasive in my hometown of Dubuque, Iowa. It is
an anecdote that many Dubuquers learn in grade school as it has passed from generation to
generation. The story, which weaves ...
Between Glimpses of Blue for Wind Ensemble and Fixed Media
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Between Glimpses of Blue is a work for wind ensemble and fixed media that uses
the visual imagery of clouds as the inspiration for the piece, and as a direct influence for
the form and orchestration. Cirrus, Stratus, ...
BITE: New Music Concert and Multimedia Installation Featuring Vocal Soloists from the KC VITAs Chamber Choir and Dancers from the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
BITE is a multi-media installation that features all new music in an entirely immersive space. There is no complete, written score for the full performance. Instead, there is fixed media with semi-improvised, cellular vocal ...
Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums, for Full Orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums is an orchestral piece with three main
sections played in a single continuous movement. Its inspiration comes from a set of ancient
Chinese seal scripts on ten drum-shaped ...
Maurice Ravel and Paul Wittgenstein: Le Concerto pour la Main Gauche in Response to World War I
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961) lost his right arm during
World War I. Wittgenstein recovered from the surgery, then in 1915 returned to
Vienna to commission one of the most celebrated left-hand piano ...
Five Ekmousikés for Solo Piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
“Five Ekmousikés” is a multi-movement work composed for solo piano, dedicated to and
to be premiered by my grandmother, Dr. Janet Bass Smith. Each movement in this work is
programmatically tied to a piece of extra-musical ...
Protest and Survive: A Brief History and Analysis of the Politics of Punk
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Politics are an important aspect of most punk music, and many authors, avoiding
concrete description, paint the genre with a nebulous left-ish brush. This, however, is
insufficient at explaining how and why the genre ...
The Birth of the Eternal for String Orchestra, Piano and Percussion
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
The Birth of the Eternal is a one-movement composition for string orchestra, piano and
percussion. It is written as a centennial commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and
honors the memory of the victims of the ...
Un Chien Andalou – An Orchestral Film Score
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Un Chien Andalou - An Orchestral Film Score, is a one-movement work for small
orchestra composed as live accompaniment to the 1929 silent film Un Chien Andalou by
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Several factors went ...
The Seventh Sun For Orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
In this work I have created sounds to represent a series of events that signify the
apocalypse in Buddhism, the day that seven suns appear in the sky. It is said to bring about
the end of this old, present world. No ...
Piper in the Woods: An opera in one act
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
“Piper in the Woods” is a one act opera for six principal singers plus SATB chorus,
along with an ensemble of nine instrumentalists. The piece is based on a short story of the
same name by Philip K. Dick. First published ...
For whom the bell tolls for flute (piccolo), soprano saxophone (alto saxophone), percussion, and piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This piece is inspired by "Meditation XVII”, a poem written by John Donne in 1624.
It appears in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Seuerall Steps in my Sicknes. The
opening line is:
"PERCHANCE he for whom this ...
Three Portraits of Pipa – for pipa and orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Three Portraits of Pipa is a three movement concerto for pipa, a traditional
Chinese plucked-string instrument that has a history of more than 2000 years in China.
The large variety of timbres of the pipa gives the ...
forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This quartet features a transparent structure in which a dense, static ensemble motif
gradually and smoothly transforms into a highly active and agitated counter-motif. This process
repeats twice: with each iteration, ...
The Nightingale and the Rose: Chamber Opera in Two Acts
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
I chose Oscar Wilde’s short story, The Nightingale and the Rose (about a nightingale
who sacrifices her life to create a red rose for love), for my opera for its fantasy, wit, and
expectation-defying tropes. This ...
Irreverent Faith: Neoclassicism, Catholicsm, and Humor in Francis Poulenc's Sacred Choral-Orchestral Works
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Francis Poulenc's (1899-1963) music, along with that of his early twentieth-century French contemporaries, occupies a unique place in the classical music canon. Its accessibility, and often its humor, led many scholars ...