Kui Dong: Pangu's Song (2004)

The problem with being Chinese and being a classical composer is that everyone singles you out as a "Chinese classical composer," as though that is in itself exceptional. Perhaps so in the United States, but not in China, which has a longstanding history of classical concert music generally not well understood by most Americans. Kui Dong as of this writing is an under-40-something classical composer who teaches at Dartmouth University and sometimes participates in free improvisation groups as a pianist. Pangu's Song is the ... Read More

The problem with being Chinese and being a classical composer is that everyone singles you out as a "Chinese classical composer," as though that is in itself exceptional. Perhaps so in the United States, but not in China, which has a longstanding history of classical concert music generally not well understood by most Americans. Kui Dong as of this writing is an under-40-something classical composer who teaches at Dartmouth University and sometimes participates in free improvisation groups as a pianist. Pangu's Song is the first full-length CD of her music, containing the multi-movement piano piece Earth, Water, Wood, Metal, Fire, the title work for flute and percussion, Blue Melody for a chamber ensemble of Western instruments, Three Voices for Chinese instruments, and the electronic piece Crossing. Dong does not sound like a "university composer" and appears to avoid formalized procedures. There are musical gestures throughout Pangu's Song that occasionally remind one of Cowell, Debussy, Prokofiev,... Read Less

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