Prelude Dream and Fuuge_Score Video
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- 00:00 - Start
00:15 - I. Prelude
03:08 - II. Dream
07:25 - III. Fugue
12:07 - IV. Musicians Credit
Program Note
- Wang Jie
Sometimes my mind wonders about the viola. It's like thinking about the Mets: they will never be the Yankees (Thank god! Violinists look away now). As the season inches towards the playoffs, the Mets get more and more creative towards a losing streak. How can you not love them? Although I will never manage a baseball team, I believe the two thoughts are related: what makes the Mets the Mets? In other words, what kind of music makes viola a viola? I could be wrong, but I can't imagine a manager for the Mets never played baseball. I, on the other hand, have never touched a viola. If you twist my arm, I will find notes on them. But my ideas of what it's like to play the viola boils down to best guesses. Just think of a Mets hitter waiting for a pitch from a major league arm. Best hitters in baseball guess correctly up to 40% of the time. Those are the best of the best athletes.
Somehow, the difficulty of this mental exercise led me to discover: since age 4, I have been mentored by composers who were all pianists. What are the chances? And that's who I am. While pursuing my composition studies, I was also trained as a concert pianist. One would think: oh, in that case, the piano part would be a piece of cake. Not so fast. The task in hand was creating a space for both viola and piano, specifically, a musical space where both of them can feel most free to achieve their best, not just individually, but together. Team work. The Mets pitcher is only as effective as his catcher. And visa versa.
At this point, I can't stop this Mets metaphor from flushing out all the way. Audiences of my viola sonata, would you be the fielders? Keep your eyes and ears on the ball at all times? It's true, on a good day, only 40% of the time the wood and the ball make contact. Maybe even less in this piece. But when I do, when my bat sends the pitch towards you, will you be there to catch the ball?
