Fantasia and Fugue wang jie
WANG JIE
FANTASIA AND FUGUE
for Piano and Mridangam
Commissioned by Lenka Hlavkova Memorial Fund
2025
First Publication: Sep 2025
• First Edition •
Duration: ca. 25 minutes
Wang Jie Music, ASCAP
552 Riverside Drive #1D
New York NY 10027
www.wangjiemusic.com
Program Note
The seed for this piece was planted about 26 years ago, when I arrived in NY and heard Indian classical music for the first time. I thought: “wow, I know this music. Not sure how, but I do.” Here in the west, composing means leaning into my eyes for notation. There exists a form of music only knowable through the ears, a pure aural heritage, resistant to capture by notation. What I learned from working on “Fantasia and Fugue” is this: exchanging tools is not the same as exchanging cultural perspectives. Notation is a learnable technology. Cultural perspectives? It has required me to create a space between here and there, hoping that it is just as fertile.
World Premiere
Presented by Washington Square Contemporary Music Society
Oct. 19th 2025, 7:30 pm
Tenri Cultural Institute
43a West 13th St. New York, NY 10011
Wang Jie, piano
Anantha R. Krishnan, Mridangam
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