Bamboo Lights

Name: Bamboo Lights
Brand: Schott Music
SKU: 315796
Availability: InStock

for chamber orchestra

chamber orchestra

Bamboo Lights is a memorial for my family members who have perished in the war. Dense bamboo forests surround and shelter the villages in southern China. These groves bore witness to the horrors and atrocities of war: howling winds, flickering lights, eyes, shining, gazing, peering through the leaves......

Edition: Performance material

Series: Bamboo Lights

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Description

‘Dense bamboo forests surround and shelter the villages in southern China. Those groves bore witness to the horrors and atrocities of war: howling winds, flickering lights, eyes, shining, gazing, peering through the leaves […].’ (Lei Liang)

A memorial to Lei Liang’s family who perished in World War II, Bamboo Lights evokes images of the bamboo grove in a manner similar to the haiku poetry of Matsuo Basho. The work’s four movements emulate several aspects of the bamboo, concluding with the dramatic imagery of light flickering through the shoots, a parallel to Liang’s ancestors gazing at him from heaven.

Orchestral Cast

1(pic).1.1.1-1.1.1.0-2perc(I: 4timp, crot, bng, b.d, bamboo chimes, lg bottle [or whistle]; II: xyl, mar, cym, tamt, bng, flex, lg bottle)-hp.pno-2vn.va.vc.db