Traces of Time
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Score title
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Traces of Time
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Composer
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Shi Fuhong
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Program note
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Time breaks memory into fragments like scattered pearls. Overlapping memories appear following the traces of time. Understood—vigor and firmness from the boatmen’s work songs; Known—liveliness and delight from the agile and vivacious shadow puppet’s play; Realized—trains of thought like floating kites; Memorized—the amusements of gamboling children on summer nights; Perceived—the teenagers’ innermost thoughts from the * “flower” flown from the cols.
Time breaks the memory into fragments like the scattered pearls. They are the pearls in life.
* “Flower” signifies love songs, the way young girls are called by their lovers in northwest of China.
Shi Fuhong