Cranes and Peaches (2011)
Cranes and Peaches
Solo Piano
(2011) 4:00
Cranes and Peaches was a collaboration with fellow composer and good friend Erin Richardson.
The Honolulu Academy of Arts started the Orvis Artist-in-Residence program which chooses four art students from UH Manoa to use their facilities to create artwork and interact with the public for the year. The Orvis Artist-in-Residence program expanded in 2011 to include music students from UH Manoa to provide a venue for performances while enhancing the museum experience.
As a group, we composition students decided that we would visit the museum and choose a piece or a collection of pieces of art to use as inspiration. We then wrote music based on the artwork and had it performed in the museum near the art we chose.
Erin and I chose to use a Korean screen called Cranes and Peaches as our inspiration. The screen can be seen at the Honolulu Academy of Arts website.
The piece is made up of three movements. Each movement was inspired by three different parts of the screen: the right side with the cranes and peach tree, the crane standing on the rock in the middle, and the sun and water on the left side.