Into the Fall (2018)
Instrumentation -
flute (C, bass), clarinet (B flat, bass), bassoon, piano, violin, cello
Duration - ca. 7'15''
Performance history -
January 5, 2019, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Meitar Ensemble featuring Trío Arbós with Pierre-André Valade (conductor)
August 4, 2020, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Meitar Ensemble with Tom Karni (conductor)
Programme Notes -
"Into the Fall" was written in Fall 2018. The piece is based on my own encounters during that period. In this not-too-long piece, there are small portraits, either complete or incomplete, of people I met, street views of places I visited, and reactions and reflections of my personal life. Being both a composer and a writer, I love music as a medium for its abstractness, much like mixing ingredients into a dish, where the resulting stir-fry, while still closely related to the author, is, on the other hand, also able to bring something more intimate to the audience themselves. A music piece, unlike a story where every scene is more or less clear, is made up of murmurs of life, reflecting the deepest parts of everyone’s hearts…
In the words of William Shakespeare:
"All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players…"
Recording by Meitar Ensemble
© 2020 by Zhuosheng Jin.
Instrumentation -
flute (C, bass), clarinet (B flat, bass), bassoon, piano, violin, cello
Duration - ca. 7'15''
Performance history -
January 5, 2019, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Meitar Ensemble featuring Trío Arbós with Pierre-André Valade (conductor)
August 4, 2020, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Meitar Ensemble with Tom Karni (conductor)
Programme Notes -
"Into the Fall" was written in Fall 2018. The piece is based on my own encounters during that period. In this not-too-long piece, there are small portraits, either complete or incomplete, of people I met, street views of places I visited, and reactions and reflections of my personal life. Being both a composer and a writer, I love music as a medium for its abstractness, much like mixing ingredients into a dish, where the resulting stir-fry, while still closely related to the author, is, on the other hand, also able to bring something more intimate to the audience themselves. A music piece, unlike a story where every scene is more or less clear, is made up of murmurs of life, reflecting the deepest parts of everyone’s hearts…
In the words of William Shakespeare:
"All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players…"
Recording by Meitar Ensemble
© 2020 by Zhuosheng Jin.