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Incredible, had to share with our Wind Ensemble students.

This is actually the most beautiful and complicated thing I’ve heard in awhile, is that a choir or is it somehow instruments??!!

We are so excited to perform this at Amador Valley this fall. Thank you Viet for this music.

Sophomore?

Absolutely GORGEOUS, Viet! This is at the top of my list to program for all-state and top regional honor bands now. You have such a beautiful gift. Thank you for sharing it with us in such a heartfelt work.

Played in the world premiere of this piece at FMEA. It was such a fun and wonderful piece to play!

Cannot wait for this to be published!

Ever since I played your moth and deciduous, I’ve been practically hooked on your compositions, there’s something otherworldly about the pieces you write

I will be playing this piece in my high school band in two weeks! So excited! This is such beautiful and meaningful piece. Every day in band we want to rehearse this piece because we love it so much!!

My son played this recently at UK. Like the others in this thread it moved me greatly. Thank you.

I have a new appreciation for combs and credit cards.

His tuba concerto made me cry. In a good way. You really can't experience it on RUclips. You have to hear it live.

probably one of the greatest pieces i’ve had the opportunity to play. -WVU symphonic band clarinetist

HOW!?!?!!? There's no way real instruments are playing on that level!!! Oh man, as a composer, I am soooo jealous 😖

This is wonderful. Your music provides a way for us to experience the beauty of life and the world. Thank you so much for creating that.

This is incredibly stunning! The skill and concentration required by the players is also so impressive! What a beautiful composition - looking forward to hearing more!

Absolute bliss. You continue to push the band world into new territory, Viet. Bravo.

So beautiful…. Ethereal…. Can’t wait to hear the whole Symphony!!!! 🙌🙌🔥🔥🙌🙌

I love how the ‘ripples’ and ‘echoes’ for effect are written into the composition via vibrato. If I’m describing it wrong, please forgive me. As a guitarist, one learns through effect pedals how to manipulate delay…with the hope of achieving the sonic expression of something like the ocean depths. It’s difficult to do. To listen to a composition that’s already masterful, and to then realize the effects are scribed and given to wind players to simply execute…is epic.

Absolutely stunning, Viet!

I just watched the TLU Wind Ensemble play this piece, and I had to come back for another listen. This is honestly the most beautiful piece I’ve ever heard, and I hope to make it into a college band to play pieces like these.

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Playing this in wind ensemble; congrats on the recent marriage! Wedding looked gorgeous <3

My son’s high school wind ensemble played this song recently. You would be very proud. Such a moving, relevant, yet timeless piece of music.

This song is so good

We are playing this in my high school all city band and it's beautiful

It sound like an orchestra with a delay and reverse delay effect! Congrats! I really like your music!

I find it absolutely astounding how someone can be going through such grief and hard times and use that to turn it into a work of art. The “falling leaves” description you gave fits this song perfectly. Bravo, Mr. Cuong.

Just played this a couple of weeks ago for the nassau-duval honor band, and I just wanna say thank you so much Dr. Bodnar for choosing this piece.

coolest song ever omg especially the horn rips near the end

My band teacher told us about this song today and its story behind it. It’s truly a work of art and probably one of the best pieces I’ve ever heard.

I was lucky enough to play the world premiere of this piece on clarinet, and my god, it’s one of my favorite pieces I’ve ever heard. Both from listening and feeling the melancholy but hopeful mood, and the technicality and methods used to create the sound effects from percussion, it’s a marvel of a work.

really gorgeous piece :)

My sister said she heard this piece performed by a school ensemble and i had to hear it for myself. As a string player, I am envious of the timbres a wind ensemble conveys. Great work!

I’m in hs and playing this at Carnegie hall! Super hard piece but it is so cool!

Beautiful, thank you for sharing!

Absolutely stunning!

Was it your intent for the glasses to sound as written or an octave lower?

6:19 measure 276

1:33 for movement 2

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Absolutely fantastic.

Good music - thanks!

Damn, the audience couldn’t hold back their applause for even a second

I hope our ensemble lets us choose what we play so I can have an excuse to suggest this 😂 I mean this song got me imagining whole scenarios for different parts of it. That's how good it is!

playing this right now in my high school’s wind ensemble, we had the utmost pleasure of having viet work with us. such a nice and knowledgeable guy, i love this piece so much. it’s so much fun whilst quite challenging!

Do you have any recommendations for marker types for the lines? I have been struggling to get mine to stay without getting wiped off by mistake. Thank you!

I had the wonderful opportunity to see and hear your complete piece with the solar movement with the Pacific Symphony on 9/23/22. Wow, what a wonderful experience! Keep composing. Your work is fantastic!

I remember playing this with the St. Charles East high school wind ensemble. amazing!