Jindo (2018) by Eun Young Lee published on 2019-10-22T01:55:15Z Alto saxophone and piano (2018) Premiered by Philipp A Stäudlin and Yoko Hagino The title, Jindo, is named after an island southwest of the Korean peninsula which gave birth to several important Korean traditional music genres (Pansori, Sanjo, Sinawi). Also, it is near the place where a ferry sank, taking more than three hundred lives, mostly high school students on April 16th 2014. The young students were writing text messages to their parents about whether they would be saved. Not many people were saved from the ferry even though those students and their parents were texting each other for several hours. The Korean folk tune, Jindo Arirang, is used in this piece. This piece is dedicated to the victims of the ferry tragedy. Genre Classical
