Amazing! Glad I found this beautiful piece. I just heard it on "Performance Today" with Fred Child. Thanks for the disclosure - Wang Jie, the composer, is his wife! 👩❤💋👨
I met wang jie at the emerging composers intensive last year (applications to this year's eci are open, btw!) And she was one of the coolest and funniest people I've ever met. Gave me a damn good lesson too. Great to see her pop up here!
This is fabulous, I thought the organ added a quality of monumentality to the string quartet - what a wonderful choice of instrumentation. Also... the harmonic idiom, seemingly simple in colour, but so rich in its emotional resonances!
Very nice and original. Program notes are not necessary. Keep in mind that only a very tiny fraction of contemporary music is recorded or performed more than once.
As a composer, I believe that program notes are absolutely necessary, especially for this piece. I feel that your comment may be a bit insensitive, as it lacks acknowledgement for the composer's personal background and identity that is reflected in the program note. For me, program notes often enhance my perspective and sometimes even change my initial impression of a piece. Further, Wang Jie's note expresses how meaningful and sentimental these aspects are from her perspective, as well as providing further context for the music itself.
@@ethanresnikcomposer I'm a composer myself, too (though still at the beginning of my journey) and imo, while the programme note given here is very touching, and also very interesting, it definitely is far from necessary for the enjoyment of the music. It's hardly even about the music, and the little I did get from it (that the music is supposed to be somewhat universal, though of course with some Chinese influence) isn't even outright stated. A piece shouldn't have to rely on programme notes to be good, though of course sometimes the context given does help people enjoy them (for example, even just by telling people what to pay attention to, in a general sense). I'll never bash the programme note as a concept, but strictly, no, it's not necessary. EDIT: That said, I do think the last sentence about "contemporary music is rarely performed more than once" slightly changes the message to "why bother writing programme notes for something that'll never be performed again", in which case my response would be, firstly, that one performance is enough to bring out the bells and whistes, and secondly, that who knows, maybe this one will be lucky(/good) enough to be performed again. Though this particular programme note does seem rather specific to that particular performance.
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Amazingly beautiful.
Amazing! Glad I found this beautiful piece. I just heard it on "Performance Today" with Fred Child. Thanks for the disclosure - Wang Jie, the composer, is his wife! 👩❤💋👨
I met wang jie at the emerging composers intensive last year (applications to this year's eci are open, btw!) And she was one of the coolest and funniest people I've ever met. Gave me a damn good lesson too. Great to see her pop up here!
Best contemporary piece I have heard in a very long time.
This is fabulous, I thought the organ added a quality of monumentality to the string quartet - what a wonderful choice of instrumentation. Also... the harmonic idiom, seemingly simple in colour, but so rich in its emotional resonances!
What a surprising combination ! Very nice indeed !
Thank you Nick! It means a lot!!
It is my pleasure!! INCREDIBLE MUSIC!!!!!
May I ask what the reversed flat symbols denote? They sound like microtones.
Thanks for your question. It means a quarter tone flat. @@johnpcomposer
Amazing music, wow!!
Very nice and original. Program notes are not necessary. Keep in mind that only a very tiny fraction of contemporary music is recorded or performed more than once.
As a composer, I believe that program notes are absolutely necessary, especially for this piece. I feel that your comment may be a bit insensitive, as it lacks acknowledgement for the composer's personal background and identity that is reflected in the program note. For me, program notes often enhance my perspective and sometimes even change my initial impression of a piece. Further, Wang Jie's note expresses how meaningful and sentimental these aspects are from her perspective, as well as providing further context for the music itself.
@@ethanresnikcomposer I'm a composer myself, too (though still at the beginning of my journey) and imo, while the programme note given here is very touching, and also very interesting, it definitely is far from necessary for the enjoyment of the music. It's hardly even about the music, and the little I did get from it (that the music is supposed to be somewhat universal, though of course with some Chinese influence) isn't even outright stated.
A piece shouldn't have to rely on programme notes to be good, though of course sometimes the context given does help people enjoy them (for example, even just by telling people what to pay attention to, in a general sense). I'll never bash the programme note as a concept, but strictly, no, it's not necessary.
EDIT: That said, I do think the last sentence about "contemporary music is rarely performed more than once" slightly changes the message to "why bother writing programme notes for something that'll never be performed again", in which case my response would be, firstly, that one performance is enough to bring out the bells and whistes, and secondly, that who knows, maybe this one will be lucky(/good) enough to be performed again. Though this particular programme note does seem rather specific to that particular performance.