Listening to the Land
From Broken Ink
(2013) | 6 minutes
Commissioned by the city of Hangzhou, in partnership with China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra
SCORING A: 2.2.2.2 / 4.2.3.1 / timp / 3 perc (vibraphone, glockenspiel, crotale (with bow), suspended cymbal, mark tree, triangle, bass drum) / hp / cel./ str.
SCORING B (reduced): 2.2.2.2 / 2.2.0.1 (optional tuba or bass tbn)/ timp / 2 perc (2nd percussion optional) / hp / str.
SCORING C: strings
PREMIERE
7 May 2017, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, NJ.
Princeton Symphony Orchestra
Rossen Milanov, conductor
RECORDING Guangzhou Symphony conducted by Zhou Tian (Pacific PCD6453)
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About
“Listening to the Land” is an elegy inspired by “Forever in Happiness (Reminiscing the bygone days),” a Song Dynasty poem by Xin Qiji (1140 –1207) about lost love. It is a movement of Zhou Tian’s Broken Ink suite, in which the composer “sought to capture the poetic flavor that was lost in translation.” Two scorings are available: orchestra (with reduction options), and strings.
Related Work
- Broken Ink (for orchestra)