If you’re a composer for hire, every now and then you have to write something like this. It’s a guilty pleasure. Non, je ne regrette rien.

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	Groove Pastiche

This week’s selection is a wry and somewhat French-flavored solo piano cue. I took a few editorial liberties with this “album” version of the music, making it a bit more playful and free now that it’s no longer tied to the timing of the scene it originally accompanied.

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	The Uninvited Guest

An all-night study montage is musically depicted with mallet instruments, solo string pizzicato, and other pleasant eccentricities.

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	The Cram Session

Guzheng soloist Su Chang displays a sensitive command of her instrument in this haunting passage with harp, strings, and bass clarinet. This is an excerpt from the recent album release of Identity: Zhongshan Zhuang, a concerto for guzheng and orchestra.

The full album, which also contains several solo guzheng pieces, is available from most online music retailers, including iTunes and Amazon.

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	A Place of Memories

Here’s a third excerpt from my concert piece Identity: Zhongshan Zhuang, a concerto for guzheng and orchestra. Like the other excerpts, this section of the music corresponds to part of an accompanying narrative story. Here, the son of the Taiwanese refugee general returns to China via airplane, to see his homeland for the first time as an adult.

The full album, which also contains several solo guzheng pieces, is available from most online music retailers, including iTunes and Amazon.

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	The Return

This week I’m sharing another excerpt from my concert piece Identity: Zhongshan Zhuang, a concerto for guzheng and orchestra. This excerpt, from the second movement, musically illustrates a Taiwanese refugee’s reminiscence of better times.

The full album, which also contains several solo guzheng pieces, is available from most online music retailers, including iTunes and Amazon.

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	Memories of Home

This week I’m happy to share an excerpt from Identity: Zhongshan Zhuang, my concerto for guzheng and orchestra which was released this week by Hanyi.

The concerto is what’s sometimes called “program music”, meaning that it corresponds to a story, similarly to how a film score accompanies a movie. This excerpt, near the opening of the first movement, evokes pastoral pre-war times in the Chinese countryside.

The full album, which also contains several solo guzheng pieces, is available from most online music retailers, including iTunes and Amazon.

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	Peaceful Times