![Long Path was written in 2002 for my dear friend Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu for the occasion her final concert as […]](http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/lp1-845x175.png "Long Path for solo piano and tape narration (2001)")
Long Path was written in 2002 for my dear friend Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu for the occasion her final concert as a student at the Eastman School of Music.
The piece begins with a reading of the poem of the same title by its author, Fang-Tsu’s mother, the much-admired Mongolian poet and painter Muren Hsi (b. 1943). What follows, in hesitant steps, is a musical journey through a recollected moment long since past. It is music of transference and transfiguration, music of memory, renewal, and of acceptance. Here too, a daughter must retrace a mother’s “indelible footprints”. – 凱文· 恩斯特
A translation of the poem is available here: Long Path, poem
Long Path was recently performed at the MidAmerican Center for New Music’s New Music Festival. That performance can be viewed below:
A score for Long Path is available for download, it is licensed under a “Creative Commons” license, see below.
Long Path for solo piano and tape narration by Kevin Ernste is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
