Huang Ruo

A Dust in Time

Subtitle	passacaglia for solo violin
Year(s) composed	2021
Publisher	PSNY
Instrumentation	short version
Duration	30'
Premiere	April 2021; Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Commission	Commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Composer note	No matter who you are and where you are, we are all affected by so many unsettling crisis in our world today. Most of us have experienced moments during this global crisis where time and space seem to be slowed or frozen. For some of us, memories, feelings, and lives are forever trapped in that slowly frozen time and space. All the ongoing crisises has affected our current life and maybe even our life in the future. "A Dust in Time" is written for the people affected by lost, giving them a piece of music to reflect, to express, to mourn, to bury, to heal, to find internal peace, strength, and hope. This solo-violin version of "A Dust in Time" is created as part of the WPA Virtual Commissions. The piece is about 30-minutes in duration, unfolding a process and journey from darkness to light, from frozenness and motionlessness to full of life and energy. – Huang Ruo March 1, 2021