WANG JIE
Flying On the Scaly Backs of Our Mountains
WANG JIE
Flying On the Scaly Backs of Our Mountains
WANG JIE
Flying On the Scaly Backs of Our Mountains
for Orchestra
FULL SCORE
First Edition
Commissioned by Colorado Music Festival
Premiered by Colorado Music Festival Orchestra Peter Oundjian, Music Director
In gratitude to Barbara and Chris Christoffersen for their support of the Colorado Music Festival.
Orchestra Duration
2 Flutes
Piccolo
2 Oboes
English Horn
2 Clarinets in Bb (2nd doules Eb)
Bass Clarinet in Bb
2 Bassoons
Contrabassoon
4 Horns in F
3 Trumpets in C
2 Trombones
Bass-Trombone
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I: Snare Drum, Tam-tam. Percussion II: Triangle, Suspended Cymbal, Xylophone, Sleighbells, Vibraphone, Tambourine, Tam-tam (shared with Perc I.)
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Violoncello
Double Bass
ca. 9 minutes
Score in C
Except that the Piccolo and the Xylophone sound one octave higher, the Glockenspiel sounds two octaves higher, the Double Bass sounds one octave lower.
Program Note
Sometime between 1050 and 1100 AD, the celebrated polymath Su Dongpo traveled, journaled, and left few minds unstirred for centuries to come. “The true face of Mount Lu is lost to my sight, for it is right in this mountain that I reside.” He famously exclimated.
Travel poetry during his time radiated metaphors. They were never just about the scenery. This poem concluded that the decision to live “in” a mountain risks losing the sight of the true face. Maybe it’s also the big picture. I struggle with this idea.
Dongpo also lived during a time when being a polymath meant fame and glory. Today, he has a Wikipedia page in twenty-four languages. The list of his achievements goes on: calligrapher, gastronome, painter, pharmacologist, poet, politician, and writer. Moreover, he was a notoriously strong personality in all parts of public life. Unlike today, they used to dig big personalities, those Chinese living in the Song Dynasty. Reverence and envy aside, I suspect one thing about him most people haven’t thought about.
He didn’t rock climb. I do that. He didn’t feel the true faces of the mountain under his finger tips. I feel that - all the wrinkle and dimple as the mountain releases its past to the little me.
There is nothing we rock climbers wouldn’t sacrifice to lose ourselves right “in” the mountains, groove upward, and top out. Nothing. Not even life. When we succeed, we get to watch from above, a nod of approval from mother earth. The true face reflective of a universe bigger than the biggest picture men can ever dream of.
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