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Shu Shon Key (Remembrance) Review

Listen Voices of Change comes alive like a jungle at sunrise CLASSICAL REVIEW: Rice composer’s piece grabs the ears at Voices of Change The music was really contemporary – none more than two years old – for Voices of Change’s Sunday-evening concert at Southern Methodist University’s Caruth Auditorium. On first hearing, none of the four...

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Groundswell Review

Listen Steven Mackey’s “Ground Swell” grew out of a similar disconnect between ends and means, but the conflict worked itself out more fruitfully. Threads of Americana emerged now and then, but they were colored in unexpected ways. Exhilaration was the guiding force at times, while other passages seemed overcome by vertigo and fatigue. The...

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Shu Shon Key (Remembrance) by Shih-Hui Chen (2006)

Shu Shon Key (Remembrance) was inspired by a Taiwanese Folk melody that conveys a feeling of homesickness. I wrote this work for Hsin-Yun Huang who shares a similar background to my own: both of us were born in Taiwan, yet we have lived the majority of our lives in the West. Given our shared heritage and experience, it seemed fitting to use this melody as...

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