2026-07-17 23:19 UTC
@composers@fedigroups.social
A bit more about this piece, which is close to my heart. These are poems that my wife (fiancée back then) and her parents love. The initial idea was that my father-in-law would sing them—he has a beautiful voice—but what I wrote turned out to be too strange. He likes my music but this is pretty hard to sing if you’re not used to atonality.
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@mcmullin@musicians.today 2026-07-17 23:25
@composers@fedigroups.social My wife and her parents all worked closely with me to help me understand the poems. My Chinese is not very good, and it was worse then, so there’s no way I could have done this on my own. I listened closely to how my father-in-law recited the poems, and recorded him doing it. I memorized them all myself too. They explained to me what they meant, both generally and word by word, syllable by syllable, making me aware of many subtle connotations and allusions. 2/