BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer Chen Yi’s piece “Shuo” will be performed by Resonance Works on November 13 and 14–find more information below! #Repost @resonanceworks with @make_repost ・・・ At 15 years old, and in the midst of the Chinese cultural revolution, composer Chen Yo went through what she describes as the “dark period of my life” in an interview with the @americancomposersforum . “When I was a teenager, I was forced to go to the countryside to work as a farmer, hard labor work,” she says. “But after those two years, I was taken back to the city to work as a concertmaster in the opera house orchestra. Then I started to compose for the orchestra.” Her music, which draws on her Chinese heritage and blends Eastern and Western traditions, captures some of the most beautiful elements of Chinese folk traditions. . A Lorena Cravens/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor of Composition at the @umkcinkansascity since 1998, Chen Yi has been awarded some of new music’s highest honors,...