Multitudinous Stars and Spring Waters
for soprano & B-flat clarinet; arranged by Natalie Groom
Composer: Jenni Brandon
Publisher: Jenni Brandon Music
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From the composer:
"Multitudinous Stars and Spring Waters for Soprano and Clarinet in B-Flat represents a collection of poets from a vast period of Chinese history. The poems in it come from the collection of poems “Women Poets of China”. This book, edited and translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung, explores poetry from many centuries both attributed to and written by women poets.Throughout the centuries Chinese women were not allowed to share their poetry. They were basically property of their husbands, having no rights to money, property, or education. Poetry was written in secret, often destroyed or shared only amongst other women. It has been just in the 20th century that Chinese women poets began to freely write and share their poetry.
Within this work are three main poems:
Spring Song, Thinking of Someone, and Married Love. These make up the larger picture of love and waiting, sometimes with disappointment and grief, of admiration, of marriage and of eternal love. In between are selections, almost like Haiku, from the poem “Multitudinous Stars and Spring Waters” by Ping Hsin. These feel like fragments of thoughts; like what you’d think silently to yourself, before and after the bigger declarations of the messages from the three larger poems.
Thematically, all of the poems tie together. There are day and night themes (“Spring Song” moves into “Bright moon”). There’s the “ocean of thoughts” and the turbulent waters of the heart (“The orphan boat” and “Thinking of Someone”). And of course there is limitless, eternal love, like the night sky full of stars (“Void only” and “Married Love”). But the whole work is a love song – telling that age-old story of the push and pull of emotions that only love can cause. The soprano and clarinet are equals in this intertwining duet in telling this love story. Both bring emotional weight to the work as they journey into eternal love as told through the final lines of the work:
I am in your clay. You are in my clay.
In life we share a single quilt.
In death we will share one coffin." -
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Pages: 10
Pages (score): 15
Publisher Code: JB198
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Length: 28 cm
Width: 23 cm
Thickness: 0.279 cm
Weight: 154 g
