A Time to Celebrate (mp3)

Composer's notes:


A time to celebrate
is
a time
to enjoy
to reflect
to forgive
and to be
together

A time to celebrate
is
a time
to give
to assist
to miss
to discover
the outer
and
inner worlds

A time to celebrate
is
a time
to sing
to listen
and to learn
from the past

A time to celebrate
is
a time
to forget
to remember
and to enter
another gate
another age


A Time to Celebrate is a collation of recycled fragments of sounds and melodies that I have composed, recorded or created in the last 10 years. Music on Chinese drum, gong, dizi (flute), erhu (fiddle), mouth organ (sheng), sulings (Balinese flutes), whirlies, and power pole bells are combined into a web of sounds to signify the nature of a celebration: a harmonious togetherness of the differences.

Sounds and text copyright © 2009 by Le Tuan Hung