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MTC's Commissioning History
Suite for Matriarchal Shaman Warriors
Fred Ho, photo by Robert Adam Mayer
Composer:
Fred Ho
Commissioner:
IIIZ+
Year Completed:
2006
Premiere Date:
09/27/2006
Premiere Venue:
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA The aesthetic concept for this suite is post-primitivist ancient avant-garde processional and processional music in celebration of unsung great Asian women "sheroes" and elder activists.
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Genre:
Chamber
Instrumentation:
Koto, Zheng, Kayagum, Changgu
Program:
Commissioning Music/USA 