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: 2222 / 4231 / timp+3 perc (vibraphone, glockenspiel, crotale (with bow), suspended cymbal, mark tree, triangle, bass drum) / hp / cel./ str.
SCORING B (reduced): 2222 / 220(1)/ timp+1 or 2 perc / (hp) / str.
SCORING C: strings
PREMIERE 7 May 2017, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, NJ., by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rossen Milanov
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.
May we suggest…
- Broken Ink (for orchestra)
- Joy for strings
- Nocturne for strings
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (full or chamber orchestra)
- Double Concerto (violin, viola & chamber orchestra)
- Violin Concerto “Night Tour” (with chamber orchestra)
- Flute Concerto (with chamber orchestra)