Prism
(2004) | 8 minutes
Commissioned by Meng-Chieh Liu
SCORING piano
PREMIERE Meng-Chieh Liu, piano
30 January 2004, St. Andrew’s Methodist Church, Cherry Hill, NJ
Revised version premiered by Yuja Wang, piano,
16 February 2005, The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA
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Yuja Wang, piano. Live at the Curtis Institute of Music. ©All Rights Reserved.
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Prism embeds tunes inspired by Chinese folk music into a neo-impressionistic piece for the piano. A lush beginning (my homage to Ravel) is followed by a rhapsodic Allegro, succeeded by a nostalgic epilogue. (Zhou Tian)