Description
Instrumentation: chamber orchestra and childrens’ choir
Edition: score
Year: 1979-81
Difficulty: medium
With the wars in the Middle East, the refugees, and terrorism of the recent events, Jia Yuan shows that repeople on earth have not progressed in making peace and harmony, sadly.
“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; the central piece scored for children’s choir, demonstrates Lee’s belief that music is a functional language, for both expression and communication.
