The Booming Times

Composer

HSIEH, Long-Kwang

Work type

Orchestral / Concerto

Instrumentation

Orchestra

Year

2010

Duration

10'

Music commentary
Entering this era of the 21st century, we see that nature is booming due to the holy infant phenomenon. Humans have also caused various booms in life due to the change of culture, rapid development of science, and high pursuit of civilization, such as: Internet Hurricane, financial hurricane, material hurricane, speed hurricane, emotional hurricane ... and so on.

This variation in life style affects the human body and mind. Although it makes life more convenient and more enjoyable, but also because of the pursuit of more, bigger, faster, better, and higher, which causes major mental pressure, people become easily nervous, restless, melancholic, and depressed And panic.

The lives of modern people are colorful and have more romance. There is a little irritability in romance. Behind the carnival, there is also sadness and uneasiness. The composer wanted to express this feeling through this piece of music.

After a slow prelude, the whole song is unfolded by two themes. The first one is played by woodwind instruments, which is mainly composed of descending notes with increasing fourths and is developed by each instrument group in turn. The second theme with a romantic scent is first developed by the trombone in the second paragraph. This theme contains several motives, which become the main material for future development.

In the latter part of the music, the two previous themes are sometimes intertwined, sometimes competing with each other, and to the end, there is a fierce chaos. 

Finally, after the trumpet's excitement, it drifted away. The finale is contested again by the two themes, ending the whole song quickly and categorically.
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