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Spring
Festival
by Chen Yi
Released Spring 2002
Ordering
information:
Score, parts and CD-ROM: $60.00 (HL04001978)
Additional CD-ROM: $10.00 (HL04001980) |
Composer Chen Yi wrote Spring Festival
as a celebration of the Chinese New Year and all the
traditions that accompany this special Chinese festival.
While the melody is drawn from a southern Chinese folk
ensemble piece called Lion Playing Ball, the form of
the piece is based on the idea of the Golden Section.
The CD-ROM that accompanies this piece explains this
mathematical idea and how Chen Yi incorporated it into
the composition of this piece.
About the Composer
As the Cravens/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor
at the Conservatory of the University of Missouri-Kansas
City, Dr. Chen Yi has received bachelor and master degrees
in music composition from the Central Conservatory in
Beijing, China, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
Columbia University in the City of New York. Her composition
teachers have included Chou, Davidovsky, Wu and Goehr.
She has served as Composer-in-Residence for the Women’s
Philharmonic, the vocal ensemble Chanticleer, &
Aptos Creative Arts Center (93-96) supported by Meet
The Composer, and as a member of the composition faculty
at Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University
(96-98). Fellowships have been received from Guggenheim
Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and
National Endowment for the Arts in the United States.
Honors include a first prize from the Chinese National
Composition Competition, the Lili Boulanger Award, the
Sorel Medal, the Alpert Award, the Eddie Medora King
Composition Prize, a Grammy Award, and the prestigious
Ives Living Award (01-04) from the AAAL for music composition.
Her music is published by Theodore Presser Company,
and recorded on New Albion (97), CRI (99), Teldec (97,
99 with Grammy Award), Nimbus (93/00), Cala (95), Avant
(98), Atma (99), Hugo (00), Angel (01), Bis (01), Albany
(01) & China Record Corporation (86, 90).
*CHEN Yi's last name is CHEN, first name Yi. She can
be referred to Dr. CHEN, Ms. CHEN, or CHEN Yi.
Instrumentation
1-Conductor
1-Piccolo
4-Flute 1
4-Flute 2
2-Oboe
2-Bassoon
4-B flat clarinet 1
4-B flat clarinet 2
2-B flat bass clarinet
4-E flat alto saxophone
2-B flat tenor saxophone
1-E flat baritone saxophone |
4-B
flat trumpet 1
4-B flat trumpet 2
3-B flat trumpet 3
4-F horn
4-Trombone 1
4-Trombone 2
2-Baritone B.C.
2-Baritone T.C.
4-Tuba
1-String Bass
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2-Percussion
1: 3 congas and tom-tom
2-Percussion 2: Big Beijing Opera Gong or low gong
2-Percussion 3: Small Beijing Opera Gong or high gong
1-Percussion 4: Chinese cymbals
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