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Xiaogang Ye’s Datura Premieres in Chicago Following Unique Commission Process

Sep. 01, 2006

On September 10, Accessible Contemporary Music premieres Xiaogang Ye’s new composition Datura at the Chicago Cultural Center. While the premiere necessarily constitutes the first performance of the completed work, Xiaogang Ye and Accessible Contemporary Music have arranged for their audience to be spectators of the composition’s evolution, having made three prior iterations of the developing work available on the internet as recordings. Accessible Contemporary Music’s Executive Director Seth Boustead elaborates:

“The concert on September 10th in Chicago is the culmination of a project we are doing with Xiaogang Ye called Eastern Expressions. We have commissioned a piece from him for piano, flute, violin and cello and have requested that he send it to us in four installments while he is composing it. We record each installment at the Chicago Cultural Center and then post it to the website for him and our audience to hear and then he writes more and sends it to us and we repeat the process until the piece is done in August. The idea is to have the piece on the website in four installments, from first idea, through rewrites to the finished product so that our audience can hear the piece as it’s composed. Rather than [only] hearing the finished product they can actually get in the composer's mind and hear how he thinks when he composes.”

 

For more information on the life and music of Xiaogang Ye, please visit www.schott-music.com. More details on the project can be found online at www.acmusic.org.

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