Instrumentation: for mixed quartet

Piccolo/flute; Oboe; B-flat Clarinet; Piano

 

作品编制：为混合四重奏而作

长笛/短笛；双簧管；bB调单簧管；钢琴

 

Composition Year: 20212

创作年份：2022年

 

Duration: ca.9minutes

时长：约9分钟

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This piece was performed by Exponential Ensemble at Skidmore College, Mostly Modern Festival, Saratoga Springs, NY, in June 2022

作品于2022 年6月在纽约州萨拉托加泉斯基德莫尔大学Mostly Modern音乐节，由Expoential Ensemble室内乐队首演。

 

Program Notes:

A person cannot live alone; a person must integrate into the environment one is in, into the people around one, learn to live with wisdom and compassion, face the people around one, face oneself, to change the scenario one is in and bring the truest joy to oneself and others. If a person does not have compassion and love, he will not have true joy and happiness. Awaking Love and Compassion is structured in three sections about how to awaken the compassion and love in our humanity which is usually more difficult than we think because the head-stream is sometimes hidden, and we may not be able to find it immediately. In the Buddhist classics, there are several special ways to help us initiate our hidden love in our hearts.

1. A Fountainhead of Inspiration
The first part of the piece expresses that when we think we don't have enough loving-kindness, there is a way to approach it: go back to our own hearts and contemplate someone who has given us truly touching love. Usually, we think of our own mother, who has given us deep motherly love. If we find difficulties with our mother's love, we can also think of our grandmother, grandfather, or someone in our lives who was especially kind to us, and feel that love distinctly, and let that feeling come back in our hearts, and let our hearts be filled with gratitude. Then we can open our hearts and let love flow out of our hearts and extend to all beings, starting with those closest to us, then friends, acquaintances, neighbors,
strangers, including those who are hostile to us ... and finally, the entire universe, so that this love becomes vast and limitless. The opening of compassion in the heart will inspire the birth of the second part of compassion, and the water of compassion will flow through the canal of kindness.
 

2. Self-Transference to Others
The second part of the piece uses different woodwind instruments in a conversational style, and each instrument possesses a solo part that fully reflects the characteristics of each woodwind instrument. The music becomes more and more exciting throughout, with each section getting progressively faster. We are all made of flesh and blood and we all want to be happy and don't want to be miserable. We all have an equal right to demand happiness, and we are equal to everyone else. When we replace ourselves with others in this way, we transfer the object of our love from our past self directly to others and therefore untie our love and our ego.
 

3. Treatment of Our and Others’ Suffering
The third part of the piece focuses on how compassion allows us to build better
connections with those around us and can heal negative emotions such as apathy, frustration, anger, and fear. The power of wisdom and compassion can transform a person's situation and bring us the most authentic joy. The third part of the piece evolves from introspective and subtle colors and finally explodes, successfully awakening the deepest love within people.
 

Mercy does not harm people. It is like warm rain from the sky.
Bless the one who gives and the one who receives. Compassion is a jewel with healing properties that will shoot out in all directions.
May this piece bring loving reflection, inspiration, energy, and spiritual healing to all...

 

作品简介:

一个人不可能单独地活着，必须融入自己所处的环境，融入周围的人群之中，学会用智慧和慈悲的心态去生活，以这样的心态面对身边的人，面对自己，去改变自己所处的情景，带给自己和他人最真实的快乐。如果一个人心中没有慈悲与爱，就不会拥有真正的喜悦与幸福。这部作品用三个部分表达了如何唤醒我们人性中的慈悲与爱，这常常比我们想象的要难，因为它的源头有时候是隐藏的，我们也许不能立即找到。在佛教的经典中，有几种特殊的方法，可以帮助我们发起隐藏的爱心：
 

一：慈：启发的源泉
作品的第一部分表达了当我们自己认为没有足够的爱心时，有一个方法是：回到自己心里，观想有人曾经给过我们真正感动的爱。通常观想自己的妈妈，她曾给自己深沉的母爱。如果我们发现母爱有困难，也可以观想祖母、祖父或生命中对我们特别好的人，鲜明地感受到这份爱，让这种感觉在心中重新生起，让内心充满感激、然后打开内心，让爱从心中流露出来，延伸到一切众生，首先从最亲近的人开始，然后朋友、熟人、邻居、陌生人，包括对我们有敌意的人......最后是整个宇宙，让这种爱变得广大无极。在心中开启“慈悲”后，将启发“悲”的诞生，“悲”的水流经 “慈”的运河。
 

二：悲：自他相换：
第二部分作品用不同的木管乐器进行对话式的交流，每一个木管乐器都拥有独奏的部分，充分的体现了每个木管乐器的特点。整个音乐变得越来越激动人心，每一段的速度都在逐步变快。我们大家都是血肉组成，都要快乐，不想痛苦，都有要求快乐的平等权利，我们与别人平等无二。当我们以这种方式把自己换成别人时，我们就把我爱的对象由过去的自己直接转到别人，因此松绑我爱与我执。
 

三：治疗自他痛苦：
乐曲的第三部分主要讲述了慈悲心能让我们和周围的人建立更好的连接，可以治疗冷漠，挫折，嗔恨和恐惧等负面情绪。智慧和慈悲的力量可以改变一个人的处境，并带给我们最真实的快乐。乐曲的第三部分从内敛而含蓄的色彩经过不断地发展，最终爆发，成功唤醒起人们内心深处的爱。
 

慈悲是不会损伤人们的，它像自天儿降温煦的雨。
祝福施予的人，也祝福接受的人。慈悲是一颗如意宝珠，具有疗效的光芒会射向四面八方。
愿这首作品带给大家爱的思考、启发、能量和心灵的治愈......

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