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Lei Liang
Lakescape V
| Subtitle | for baritone, trumpet, trombone, and bass clarinet |
|---|---|
| Text information | text by Wai-lim Yip |
| Year(s) composed | 2016 |
| Publisher | Schott Music |
| Duration | 11' |
| Premiere | November 17, 2016; Miller Theatre at Columbia University, New York, NY (USA); loadbang |
| Commission | Commissioned by Miller Theatre at Columbia University, The Shapiro Fund, and Eleanor Eisenmenger, for loadbang |
| Language | English |
| Composer note | Having been interested in Mahayana Buddhism for a number of years, I went to a Buddhist monastery in upstate New York to study meditation in 1999. One evening, while walking alone by the side of the lake, I caught the sight of a “V” shape floating and extending on the surface of the water. It was a beaver taking a swim under the moon. This image gave me insight into my relationship with silence: underneath the music is a profoundly deep silence upon which I seek to inscribe my signature through sound. It serves as a point of departure that led to a series of works. In Lakescape V, the tranquility in the original “lake” series is disturbed by showers of “phonetic particles” taken from Wai-lim Yip’s poetry (in both English and Chinese) as the piece traverses through different states of mind. Lakescape V was written for and dedicated to loadbang who gave its world premiere at the Miller Theatre’s Composer Portrait on November 17th, 2016. – Lei Liang |