This piece was written for Unheard-Of Ensemble.

"Why Woman?" was inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book, "We should all be feminists". Below is a quotation from her book. 

“I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, ‘Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?’ This type of question is a way of silencing a person’s specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded, ‘Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?’)”

Why Woman?

Premiered by Ruoyang Xiang at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Auer Hall 3/23/2023

Program notes: 
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans”.  
-James Harriot  
To all creatures great and small,  May you always stay the ways you are…

To All Creatures Great And Small - for piano (2023)

Daniel Cui

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