Deciduous by Viet Cuong (Official Reference Recording)
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2024
- "Deciduous" for wind ensemble.
Composed by Viet Cuong.
Performed by the Texas Tech University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Dr. Sarah McKoin, Director.
For a long time after my father passed away, I felt like I had “lost my leaves.” In the ways that leaves harness light to create energy for trees and plants, I felt like I had so little left to harness creatively. Many days I feared those leaves would never grow back. After struggling for months to write, I finally found some healing while creating Deciduous. This involved revisiting chord progressions that brought me solace throughout my life and activating them in textures that I have enjoyed exploring in recent years. The piece cycles through these chord progressions, building to a moment where it’s stripped of everything and must find a way to renew itself. While I continue to struggle with this loss, I have come to understand that healing is not as much of a linear process as it is a cyclical journey, where, without fail, every leafless winter is followed by a spring. Deciduous was commissioned by the Florida Bandmasters Association and premiered by the 11-12 Florida All-State Band under the direction of Dr. Emily Threinen.
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Played in the world premiere of this piece at FMEA. It was such a fun and wonderful piece to play!
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!
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.
probably one of the greatest pieces i’ve had the opportunity to play.
-WVU symphonic band clarinetist
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.
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 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!!
good luck! we just played in carnegie hall with this music selection, it was such a surreal experience. you’ll do great!
@@maxpiano01thank you! That’s awesome!
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.
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.
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.
Beautiful, thank you for sharing!
My son played this recently at UK. Like the others in this thread it moved me greatly. Thank you.
We are playing this in my high school all city band and it's beautiful
coolest song ever omg especially the horn rips near the end
Playing this in wind ensemble; congrats on the recent marriage! Wedding looked gorgeous
It sound like an orchestra with a delay and reverse delay effect! Congrats! I really like your music!
really gorgeous piece :)
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