Music Unlimited I: “The Path” (軌跡)

Included in “Chinese Choral Music Anthology: Music Unlimited I.”

About the Work

The text of “The Path” is drawn from the Psalms and from passages in the Book of Jeremiah. The work is in two movements. The road a person walks in this world is not always smooth. Taking it for a straight highway, one eagerly pursues what is vain, and that is ignorance. Having passed through rough and winding mire and drifted in the wilderness, when pain and fear arise in the heart, one need only hold firm in faith to take refuge in the shadow of warm wings and await the coming of the light of life. This is the feeling I wanted to express in this piece.

Program notes: Chiung Yu Chen