The Ghost That Haunts Us
2020 | 12 minutes
SCORING clarinet, violin, cello, piano
PREMIERE Tianqi Xia, clarinet, Zhe Deng, violin, Josh Kim, cello, and Mingli Liu, piano, Werner Recital Hall, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, OH, March 30, 2021
Winner of the 2023 American Prize in Chamber Music, First Prize
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Program Notes
When Covid-19 started to break out during the Lunar Year Festival, the world did not prepare for this crisis. This piece quoted the motive from Spring Festival Overture by Chinese composer Huanzhi Li - as a celebration piece for the Lunar Year. However, after twists and turns, now it is a haunting, frightful joke, for what is supposed to be a time of happiness and reunification.
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当新冠病毒开始爆发, 正值春节。本是合家欢聚, 喜气洋洋时全世界却进入了惶恐。我们什么时候才能战胜人类的共敌, 这个鬼魅, 新冠病毒?
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