T. Kim: Morning, 6/26/2015
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- Format: Score & Set of Parts
- Instrumentation: Piano, Violin, Flute, Trombone, Vibraphone
- Work: Morning, 6/26/2015 (2015)
- Size: 8.9 x 12.0 inches
Description
In the morning of 26 June 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage. This piece is titled from the historic moment, but not about the victory of human rights – it is hardly even about LGBTQ people.
When I was asked to write this piece (in April 2015), I had been lost in thought of the seniors who live alone and stay mostly at home, and people with mental issues who are bound inside. How would their day be like? When my contemplation on this subject matter came across the remarkable morning, I was, undeniably, enjoying the victory for human rights, but on the other hand, could not help wondering what this moment would mean to the truly isolated. To share a personal story, for instance, my grandmother lived alone for a handful of years. Being retired, she always stayed at home watching TV. Not a lot of events are relevant or full of meaning to her, and I think it was true to many other people, including, to some extent, to us.
Placing the question of ‘being other' in the conceptual center, this piece has complex timbral fabric evolving slowly to symbolize the ever-changing outside world. After undergoing dramatic metamorphoses, however, it simply comes back, as if nothing had happened.
In the piece, I quoted a phrase of Justice Anthony Kennedy, not clearly audible as it is whispered. It is: ‘their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness.'
-Texu Kim
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T. Kim: Morning, 6/26/2015
