{"id":517,"date":"2018-02-19T18:14:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T17:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:52:03","slug":"pied-beauty-2017-childrens-choir-and-string-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Pied Beauty (2017) children&#8217;s choir and string orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-566\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pied-beauty.jpg?resize=810%2C573&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pied-beauty.jpg?resize=1024%2C724&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pied-beauty.jpg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pied-beauty.jpg?resize=768%2C543&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pied-beauty.jpg?w=1754&amp;ssl=1 1754w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pied-beauty.jpg?w=1620&amp;ssl=1 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- Starting bandcamp iframe embed for https:\/\/19962879a2d35bd86c7a6e11db307cce.bandcamp.com\/track\/1827951445\/ --><iframe src='https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=\/track=1827951445\/size=large\/tracklist=false\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5' class='embed-iframe embed-bandcamp' width='350' height='470' data-url='https:\/\/19962879a2d35bd86c7a6e11db307cce.bandcamp.com\/track\/1827951445\/' frameborder='0' style='max-width:700px;min-width:170px;' allowfullscreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' oallowfullscreen='true' msallowfullscreen='true' ><strong>HTML Embed: An unidentified error has occurred.<\/strong><span class=\"error-message\">This feature requires inline frames. You have iframes disabled or your browser does not support them.<\/span><span class=\"error-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/19962879a2d35bd86c7a6e11db307cce.bandcamp.com\/track\/1827951445\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open link in a new tab.<\/a><\/span><\/iframe><!-- Ending bandcamp iframe embed for https:\/\/19962879a2d35bd86c7a6e11db307cce.bandcamp.com\/track\/1827951445\/ --><!-- Cached embed generated on June 30th 2026, 03:53:05 PM) -->\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_59326\"  width=\"810\" height=\"456\"  data-origwidth=\"810\" data-origheight=\"456\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_GMmv1ElfIk?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&controls=1&disablekb=0&color=red&cc_lang_pref=&rel=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"YouTube player\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/_GMmv1ElfIk\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=810&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div>\n<p>This piece was commissioned by French-Chinese composer Qigang Chen, whose Gong Geng college runs a Summer camp for rural children to study music with superb teachers and perform with wonderful players.\u00a0 The college is situated in the remote Zhejiang countryside&#8211;so remote, that one can only access it by boat. I have been lucky and privileged enough to be able to attend his legendary composition workshops twice, and they were truly life-changing experiences for me.<\/p>\n<p>This was my first original composition for children&#8217;s choir, and it was a daring decision to choose such a difficult (intractable, even) poet as Hopkins to set to music, especially for children for whom English is not their mother tongue. I have adapted his &#8220;curtal sonnet&#8221;, rearranging his lines into a shorter form, preserving the rhymes which aid memorisation, but with plentiful repetition to reduce the burden of learning for the children.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to introduce Chinese children (and the university<span class=\"bcTruncateMore\">\u00a0students) to a harmonic and gestural language associated with early twentieth century British music, and made a deliberate study of the harmonic &#8220;moves&#8221; that Finzi and Howells often make in their pieces. In particular I studied Finzi&#8217;s &#8220;I said to Love&#8221;, and Howells &#8220;Take him, earth, for cherishing&#8221; and the requiem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The conductor of this performance is my beloved conducting teacher from my days at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Chen Lin.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the performance in Lishui Grand Theatre:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/v.youku.com\/v_show\/id_XMzY2NzEzMzYxMg==.html\">http:\/\/v.youku.com\/v_show\/id_XMzY2NzEzMzYxMg==.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TEXT<\/p>\n<p>Praise him.<\/p>\n<p>Glory be to God for dappled things.<br \/>\nGlory be for chestnut falls and finches&#8217; wings.<\/p>\n<p>Glory be to God for dappled things,<br \/>\nGlory be to God for finches&#8217; wings,<br \/>\nFor skies of coupled-colour as a brinded cow,<br \/>\nFor fold fallow and plough.<\/p>\n<p>Glory be to God, for stipple on trout that swim,<br \/>\nGlory be for all things strange, whose beauty is past change.<\/p>\n<p>Glory be for stipple on trout that swim<br \/>\nGlory be for trades, their gear and trim,<br \/>\nAll things counter, strange,<br \/>\nHe fathers forth, whose beauty is past change.<\/p>\n<p>Praise him.<\/p>\n<p>[Text adapted from Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), Pied Beauty<\/p>\n<p>Glory be to God for dappled things&#8211;<br \/>\nFor skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;<br \/>\nFor rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim:<br \/>\nFresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches&#8217; wings;<br \/>\nLandscape plotted and pieced&#8211;fold, fallow, and plough;<br \/>\nAnd all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.<br \/>\nAll things counter, original, spare, strange;<br \/>\nWhatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)<br \/>\nWith swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;<br \/>\nHe fathers-forth whose beauty is past change;<br \/>\nPraise him. ]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u300a\u6591\u9a73\u4e4b\u7f8e\u300b\u8fd0\u7528\u82f1\u56fd\u5341\u4e5d\u4e16\u7eaa\u7267\u5e08\u3001\u8bd7\u4eba\u6770\u52d2\u5fb7\u2022\u66fc\u5229\u2022\u970d\u666e\u91d1\u65af \uff081844-1889\uff09\u7684\u6240\u8c13\u201c\u7f29\u7565\u5341\u56db\u884c\u8bd7\u201d\u4e3a\u6b4c\u8bcd\u3002\u7531\u4e8e\u8be5\u8bd7\u7684\u8bcd\u6c47\u548c\u53e5\u6cd5\u8f83\u590d\u6742\u7684\u539f\u56e0\uff0c\u4e3a\u4e86\u52a9\u4e8e\u5b69\u5b50\u66f4\u5bb9\u6613\u5730\u638c\u63e1\u6b4c\u8bcd\uff0c\u4f5c\u66f2\u5bb6\u6539\u53d8\u8bd7\u884c\u7684\u987a\u5e8f\uff0c\u628a\u6709\u538b\u97f5\u7684\u8bd7\u884c\u653e\u5728\u4e00\u8d77\uff0c\u5e76\u505a\u5220\u51cf\uff0c\u6216\u91cd\u590d\u4e86\u5173\u952e\u7684\u5185\u5bb9\u3002\u5370\u5b50\u548c\u5c3e\u58f0\u90fd\u8fd0\u7528\u4e25\u8083\u7684\uff0c\u8654\u8bda\u7684\uff0c\u795e\u79d8\u5730\u97f3\u4e50\uff0c\u540c\u65f6\u5b69\u5b50\u5531\u201c\u8d5e\u7f8e\u4ed6\u201d\uff08\u8bd7\u91cc\u9762\u7684\u201c\u4ed6\u201d\u5f53\u7136\u6307\u7684\u662f\u5929\u4e3b\u6559\u4e2d\u7684\u4e0a\u5e1d\uff09\u3002\u4e2d\u95f4\u90e8\u5206\u662f\u4e3b\u526f\u66f2\u7ed3\u6784\uff08\u4e3b\u6b4c\u548c\u526f\u6b4c\u91cd\u590d\u4e00\u904d\uff09\u3002\u6b4c\u8bcd\u63cf\u7ed8\u4ee5\u53ca\u6b23\u8d4f\u5927\u81ea\u7136\u4e0e\u4eba\u95f4\u4e2d\u7684\u6240\u6709\u6591\u9a73\u7684\u7269\u4f53\uff0c\u5305\u62ec\u6817\u8272\u7684\u79cb\u5929\u3001\u9e23\u9e1f\u3001\u591a\u4e91\u7684\u5929\u7a7a\u3001\u9cdf\u9c7c\u3001\u5404\u79cd\u884c\u4e1a\u7684\u88c5\u5907\u3002\u8033\u6735\u660e\u9510\u7684\u89c2\u4f17\u6709\u53ef\u80fd\u542c\u51fa\u6765\uff0c\u5370\u5b50\u3001\u4e3b\u6b4c\u3001\u526f\u6b4c\u4e09\u4e2a\u65cb\u5f8b\u90fd\u7531\u4e24\u4e2a\u77ed\u6682\u7684\u52a8\u673a\u5f62\u6210\uff0c\u53ea\u4e0d\u8fc7\u987a\u5e8f\u548c\u65b9\u5411\u7ecf\u8fc7\u53d8\u5316\u4e86\u3002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece was commissioned by French-Chinese composer Qigang Chen, whose Gong Geng college runs a Summer camp for rural children to study music with superb teachers and perform with wonderful players.\u00a0 The college is situated in the remote Zhejiang countryside&#8211;so remote, that one can only access it by boat. 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