Meet the Composer
Dolce Suono Commissions Fang Man
photo by Yi Sun
Provisionally entitled Earth, this 20-minute work will be for bass-baritone voice and ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion (Pierrot Ensemble). It will incorporate live electronic sound by Fang Man and choreography by internationally-renowned, Philadelphia-based choreographer Roni Koresh. Music and dance are two art forms that share a common ground: abstraction. Mr. Koresh's choreography is meant to enhance the dramatic scope of the work, creating innovative connections between sound and movement. This work will be the first collaboration for Fang Man and Roni Koresh and will use the same text of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth") by Li Bai (701–762 C.E.), a Tang Dynasty poet who is one of the most important and influential writers of Chinese verse. Fang Man plans to set the same texts in the original Chinese.
World premiere: October 2011