June Story (2019)
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Instrumentation -
Three male voices, hp, vc, cb, with everyone also plays selected percussions or objects.
Duration - ca. 6‘30‘’
Performance history -
July 13, 2019, Marseille, France , members of Les Métaboles and Ensemble Multilatérale with Brian Liao
Programme Notes -
“June Story” refers to a poem I composed in June 2018 in Greece.
June
You run
With your eyes
Shimmering
And with the seabirds
Flapping around
Becoming a part of your attire
Your moving shadow
Stretches into the streetlight
I think that
At one moment
Your hairs
Crash my face lightly
At the time I started to compose this piece of music, I was in a very different mood than the time I wrote the poem. Instead of following the light, romantic atmosphere in the poem, I eventually decided to write a work destroying it. I wanted the music to be dramatic, impolite, and in a way violent. I indeed kept this idea while composing the piece.
It’s funny that when I finally got to listen to the recording of the premiere, underneath the dramatic, impolite, violent surface, I could still find a strong sense of romance everywhere in the music…
Recording by members of Les Métaboles and Ensemble Multilatérale with Brian Liao
© 2020 by Zhuosheng Jin.
Click to purchase the score.
Instrumentation -
Three male voices, hp, vc, cb, with everyone also plays selected percussions or objects.
Duration - ca. 6‘30‘’
Performance history -
July 13, 2019, Marseille, France , members of Les Métaboles and Ensemble Multilatérale with Brian Liao
Programme Notes -
“June Story” refers to a poem I composed in June 2018 in Greece.
June
You run
With your eyes
Shimmering
And with the seabirds
Flapping around
Becoming a part of your attire
Your moving shadow
Stretches into the streetlight
I think that
At one moment
Your hairs
Crash my face lightly
At the time I started to compose this piece of music, I was in a very different mood than the time I wrote the poem. Instead of following the light, romantic atmosphere in the poem, I eventually decided to write a work destroying it. I wanted the music to be dramatic, impolite, and in a way violent. I indeed kept this idea while composing the piece.
It’s funny that when I finally got to listen to the recording of the premiere, underneath the dramatic, impolite, violent surface, I could still find a strong sense of romance everywhere in the music…
Recording by members of Les Métaboles and Ensemble Multilatérale with Brian Liao
© 2020 by Zhuosheng Jin.