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Transient Canvas
Bass Clarinet and Marimba

Recorded in Alba Music Festival, Alba, Italy

June 2023

On White Mountain... (for bass clarinet and marimba)

1. "Tibet"(2018) 
2. "Half of Poem" 4'27''
3. "Living in Precious World" 5'53''

A song cycle I wrote at 2018, for soprano, flute and cello. It uses the texts coming from three short poems by a Chinese contemporary poet, Hai Zi. The first poem, "Tibet", is a poem about loneliness, but in a sense of self-completion and achievement. The second poem, "Half of the Poem", is a poem about passion and love. The third one, "Living in Precious World", is about the idea of living in the moment and enjoying what is going on. I picked these three poems because they have contrasting styles and moods, which I think well reflect the life of the poet. It is a three-movement song cycle and the order of movements is the same as the order of the poems listed above. For anyone interested in the specific meaning of those poems, please search the poem name and the poet name, and I believe you can find them online.

Big thanks to Chelsea Fingal, Vivian Han, Kerri Anne Bigornia and Alexander Levinson for doing a fantastic job with performing the whole cycle. The recording is its premiere at April 23, 2019 at Bard College CPS. I would like to thank Lera for helping me write this piece.

Hai Zi, Three Poems(2018)

composer, pianist, writer, educator.
B.A. in Philosophy, B.A. in Music, Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson)
M.M. in Composition (ongoing), Boston University

Recipient

2020 Margaret Creal Shafer Prize in Composition
2022 Soundways International Composition Competition "Excellent Work" Award
2023 First Prize of Malta International Composition Competition (string quartet category)

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On White Mountain... (for bass clarinet and marimba)

Guang Yang

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