{"id":624,"date":"2011-05-08T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/?p=624"},"modified":"2014-12-18T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T18:20:02","slug":"long-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/long-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Path for solo piano and tape narration (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Long Path <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n<p>The piece begins with a reading of the poem of the same title by its author, Fang-Tsu&#8217;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&#8217;s &#8220;indelible footprints&#8221;. &#8211; \u51f1\u6587\u00b7 \u6069\u65af\u7279<\/p>\n<p>A translation of the poem is available here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Long_Path-poem.pdf\">Long Path, poem<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-624-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/long_path.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/long_path.mp3\">http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/long_path.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Long Path was recently performed at the MidAmerican Center for New Music&#8217;s New Music Festival. That performance can be viewed below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CQ0_b4YxWu0?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Long_Path-for_solo_piano_and_tape_narration.pdf\">score for Long Path<\/a> is available for download, it\u00a0is licensed under a \u201cCreative Commons\u201d license, see below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLong Path for solo piano and tape narration by <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\">Kevin Ernste<\/a> is licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s mother, the much-admired Mongolian poet and painter Muren Hsi (b. 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