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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring 

Critical Performing Edition (Nieweg/Chang 2021)

Rite of Spring 2021 cover

Cover of the new edition, also designed by me, featuring a painting by Roerich

The newly engraved 2021 Critical Performing Edition is the result of twenty years of meticulous research and editing based on the first printed score of 1921 with corrections. This edition has incorporated 2,200 edits and corrections, building upon the Nieweg 2000 edition which itself had incorporated 21,000 edits and corrections.

I worked with Clinton F. Nieweg to produce a complete set of full score and parts, with additional material and appendices for study. Engraving was completely done in Finale.

Now available from EMS and Serenissima Music, Inc.

Click here for sample pages.

Click here for details of the many advantages of this edition.

Last page of the new Rite of Spring score

Last page of the score

First page of the Bassoon 1 part

First page of the Bassoon 1 part

QinScroll 琴捲

關山月 | 喬珊

A new way to visualize guqin music

Inspired by the YouTube channel Gerubach and my own studies in this traditional Chinese instrument, I sought to create a series of videos that gave an idea of how guqin tablature notation works.

The guqin is an ancient Chinese instrument (often confused with the guzheng, a slightly similar instrument), featuring seven strings and only one bridge. It was the instrument of choice of philosophers, scholars, and the nobility until the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 and the revolutions of the 1960s.

梅花三弄 | 張子謙

By showing scrolling highlights over the text, learners, aficionados, and connoisseurs can better visualize and  understand how guqin notation works. The main philosophical impetus for this project, especially, was showing how text does not equal music, and music does not equal text. Although in Western music, this is already taught, the divide between the two in Chinese music is even wider.

I have even given a talk for a class at the University of Michigan taught by Prof. Joseph Lam about the pursuit of textual "correctness" in guqin music.

Apollo Chorus of Chicago virtual season

2020-2021

All-virtual due to the pandemic

The Apollo Chorus of Chicago decided to continue producing a season despite the pandemic lockdowns. For the works I was tasked with ownership, I led the production from rehearsals to final release. Rehearsals were conducted on Zoom, conducting videos were sent to each chorus member, and each member sent back individually recorded tracks.

I then had to edit, mix, and master the choral tracks, and then I recorded my piano accompaniment with it, and then mixed and mastered that. Finally, I had to produce a video with imagery that related to the theme of the concert and to the music.

Bright Morning Stars

The video features people who had passed because of COVID. In my research of finding people to feature, I was struck and saddened by how many of them were musicians of all races, genders, faiths, ages, and genres, and chose to feature as many of them as I could find.

How Great Thou Art

This number featured more singers than Bright Morning Stars. Although the text is Christian, I chose images that reflected the universal beauty of nature, from the astounding phenomena that formed Earth to the breathtaking scenes that humans of all creeds and origins interact with and live in. Song begins at 26:51.

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