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Wind City Symphony Poem was
commissioned by the Hsinchu Wind Orchestra and
world-premiered at the Hsinchu Culture Center on April 9, 2006 with
Prof. Lian-Chang Kuo conducting.
It consists of five movements with a total duration of
[22’02”]:
I. Wind Talk [6’27”]
II. Tanya Festival [2’29”]
III. The View of Farm Field [2’07”]
IV. God Bless All [3’12”]
V. Fantasy World [3’45”]
VI. Science [4’42”]
The piece was based on the impressions from a journey to the Hsinchu
City. The 1st Mov. “Wind Talk” - Different
dimensions of resonance are created by means of self-vibrating,
merging, contradicting, revealing, and vanishing. Their inner
diversions, dispersions, and variations into all directions support the
expansion of music, like conversation of the wind. In this way, Many
features of the wind are represented in this work.
The 2nd Mov. “Tayal Festival” - The melody was
traditional of the Tayal tribe of Taiwan. It was sung for their ilsin,
which was akin to a New Year celebration and involved the whole
community. Its purpose was to venerate the spirits and tribal ancestors
at the end of the year as a way of thanking them for their protection
and praying for a plentiful harvest and good fortune in the year ahead.
The 3rd Mov. “The View of Farm Field” -
It’s a continuation from the previous movement. It describes
the life in the farm field in the traditional Taiwanese agricultural
society. This movement is joyfully and the melody derives from the
song, ”farm field”, by Dr.Yang Jau Jen.
The 4th Mov. “God Bless All” - Ritual activities
are being performed all over the world in different forms for different
cultures. This movement illustrates the most commonly seen ceremonial
celebrations with percussion and flutes, oboes, and realizes the
various sensations of the ritual. This introduces fast and variable
rhythms with tom-toms, congos and bongos, sometimes high, sometime low,
and sometimes exhilarating. A unique characteristic of this piece is
that bold shouts are added to express exuberance in the performance.
The 5th Mov. “Fantasy World” - The motivation comes
from Hsinchu’s glass industry and the admiration for glass
arts. The imagination of a fatasy would develops by emphasizing the
glass sounds. At the beginning, two glockenspiels are used to express a
fantasy world of glass. The main structural material of the piece is
the cycling and transforming of various types of intervals, giving
colors and meanings to the piece.
The 6th Mov. “Science” - The concluding theme is
science and technology, a celebration of Taiwan’s vitality.
The essential feature of the composition lies in the complex and ornate
inter covering of many musical parts moving simultaneously. A cheerful
melody emerges as the music reaches a concluding climax.
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