Three Songs from the Tang Dynasty – Medium Voice

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Alice Ho

Three Songs

From the Tang Dynasty

Medium Voice / Piano

Loss, isolation, hope and despair; the universality of the human drama is the subject of this triptych of songs by Chinese Canadian composer Alice Ping Yee Ho.   Set to texts from the ancient Tang Dynasty (A.D.690 – 705) these internal and penetrating texts reflect on the vagaries of war, the pain of loss and the challenges of survival. An incumbent of the western European musical tradition, Alice Ho illuminates her ancient Chinese heritage through the highly original and unquestionably modern musical setting of these timeless artifacts from one of our oldest civilizations.