Description
Instrumentation: string orchestra
Edition: score
Year: 1979-81
Difficulty: difficult
Onomatopoeia consisting of three independent pieces
with musical material built out of the idiomatic translation
of the expression “Home Sweet Home” into twenty
four world languages. “Of the 7 works programmed by
the Toronto Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra to show off
the Chinese mastery of Western idiom, only Hope Lee’s
“Chan Chan” made the transition without strain. Her
tone picture of flowing water (for 14 strings) was full of picturesque imagery, often quite subtle, ending with an
adroit closing sequence.” Toronto Star, 1990.
