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US Premiere of Lei Liang's Saxophone Concerto with Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Feb. 26, 2014

US Premiere of Lei Liang's <em>Saxophone Concerto</em> with Boston Modern Orchestra Project

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, under the direction of Gil Rose, gives the US premiere of Lei Liang’s Saxophone Concerto “Xiaoxiang” with soloist Chien-Kwan Lin at Boston’s Jordan Hall on March 28.

The concerto is an orchestrated version of an earlier piece of Liang’s, Memories of Xiaoxiang, for saxophone and tape. Commissioned by Lin in 2009, the piece commemorates a tragedy that took place during the Cultural Revolution in the Hunan Province, where the Xiao and the Xiang rivers meet. A woman, whose husband was killed by a local official, sought justice by wailing like a ghost in the forest every night behind the official’s residence. This continued for months, until both the woman and the official went mad.

Additional performances for Liang this month include his recent work for solo percussion and audience, Trans, performed by Steven Schick at the Los Angeles County Museum on March 15, as well as his Five Seasons for pipa and string quartet on March 23 by Yihan Chen and the Carpe Diem String Quartet. The concert takes place at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York.

For more information on Lei Liang, please visit www.schott-music.com.

Details on the premiere with Boston Modern Orchestra Project can be found at www.bmop.org.

Lei Liang
Saxophone Concerto “Xiaoxiang” (2009)
for alto saxophone and orchestra
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9’

Trans (2013)
for solo percussion and audience
10’

Five Seasons (2010)
for pipa and string quartet
18’

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