Momentum
Update: 2012-01-12
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Chen Yi, a distinguished Chinese composer and graduate of the Central Conservatory in Beijing has worked with the KSU Symphony Orchestra on performing her music and understanding the differences in how to interpret Chinese music.
Momentum was commissioned by the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1997, during Chen Yi’s tenure there. The work, she says, was inspired “by the power of ancient totems, the tension of the breathing lava (before it breaks up and begins to flow), and the gesture of the exaggerated dancing lines in Chinese calligraphy.” It is one of her many compositions that brings together Western instrumental colors with Chinese pentatonic tonalities.
Momentum was commissioned by the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1997, during Chen Yi’s tenure there. The work, she says, was inspired “by the power of ancient totems, the tension of the breathing lava (before it breaks up and begins to flow), and the gesture of the exaggerated dancing lines in Chinese calligraphy.” It is one of her many compositions that brings together Western instrumental colors with Chinese pentatonic tonalities.
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