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MICHAEL-THOMAS FOUMAI
COMPOSER
THE
BURNING HEART
YEAR
2012
INSTRUMENTATION
Solo Piano
DURATION
14 minutes
MOVEMENTS
I. Bound
II. Night without end
III. Pronoun
IV. The whispering snow
V. Tangled
VI. The changing tides
COMMISSIONED BY
Yoon Chung
FIRST PERFORMANCE
April 8, 2013
Tzu-yin Huang
University of Michigan
PROGRAM NOTE
The Burning Heart is a suite of six movements for piano derived from the composers Burning Heart Anthologies originaly for Voice and Piano and the orchestral songs of the same name. The settings included substantial music for the piano that could be used as songs without words. The work, inspired by ancient Japanese Haiku poetry, combines the piano and voice music into a synthesis of a new solo work.
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
May 24, 2013: Yoon Chung, Temple de la Servette, Geneva, Switzerland
April 18, 2013: Yoon Chung, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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