June Story 六月 (2019) for three instrumentalists and three vocalists by Zhuosheng Jin 金卓晟 published on 2020-03-19T06:03:09Z Live recording by members of Les Métaboles and Ensemble Multilatérale with Brian Liao (conductor), July 13th, 2019 in Marseille, France. Instrumentation: three male voices, hp, vc, cb, with everyone also plays selected percussions or objects. Score purchase: https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/instrumental/chamber-ensemble/5423-june-story “June Story” refers to a poem I composed in June 2018 in Greece. June You run With your eyes Shimmering And with the seabirds Flapping around Becoming a part of your attire Your moving shadow Stretches into the streetlight I think that At one moment Your hairs Crash my face lightly At the time I started to compose this piece of music, I was in a very different mood than the time I wrote the poem. Instead of following the light, romantic atmosphere in the poem, I eventually decided to write a work destroying it. I wanted the music to be dramatic, impolite, and in a way violent. I indeed kept this idea while composing the piece. It’s funny that when I finally got to listen to the recording of the premiere, underneath the dramatic, impolite, violent surface, I could still find a strong sense of romance everywhere in the music… Cover picture © Shunji Iwai Genre contemporary classical
