Description
- Composer: Du Yun (1977-)
- Format: Score & Set of Parts
- Instrumentation: Piano, Violin
- Work: When a Tiger Meets a Rosa Rugosa (2012)
- Binding:
- Size: 9.4 x 12.6 inches
- Pages: None
Description
Program note
Embracing a tiger inside /Smelling the rosa rugosa
(Rosa Rugosa is a type of rose.)
Unadulterated. Delicate. Strength. Effeminate. Vigorous. Innumerable. Valiant. Infinite.
Many years ago, I encountered the title line on a broken mural in rural China somewhere. and it struck me enormously. I wrote the line in my journal.
Later I learned the zen-like translation by Yu Guangzhong is on “In me the tiger sniffs the rose” by Siegfried Sassoon, from his collection, In me, past, present, future.
As I was preparing the piece, I happened to encounter a letter by Proust.
A different time, a different contextual language. Same sentiments. Transubstantiation.
From Proust: Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power…that has broken you restores you a little. I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more.
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