Instrumentation: for symphony orchestra

*2,2,2,2 4,3,3,1, T+3, harp and strings

作品编制：为双管编制交响乐队而作

 

Composition Year: 2021

创作年份：2021年

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Duration: ca.13minutes

时长：约13分钟

 

Winner of the Missouri Composer Project in orchestral open category, February 2023, Columbia, MO, April 2023.

作品在2023年1月获得密苏里作曲家项目开放交响乐组别冠军。

 

This piece was premiered in Columbia, MO, at First Baptist Church in April.16th, 2023 by Columbia Civic Orchestra, conducted by Yoshiaki Onishi.

作品在2023年4月16日，由Yoshiaki Onishi指挥，密苏里州哥伦比亚城市交响乐团在First Baptist Church密苏里作曲家项目获奖音乐会上首演。

 

Program Notes:

Any sentient animal, as small as mosquitoes and ants, as large as lions and elephants, as long as they have life, they experience the common feelings of happiness and suffering. The Call of Life is inspired by my experience of animal mercy release for 15 years. After participating in those release activities again and again, I kept thinking: Do we hear their longing and calling for life when we depriving their lives? Do we have to always build our own happiness on other animals' suffering? Originally, they had a beautiful big family and they also had their own parents and children, living happily in nature. But they are also afraid of death every day, and they also have fear, because many people, in order to satisfy their desire for money or their own appetite, (so-called "nutrition") finally
hurt them and separate them from their relatives. They also want happiness, not pain. As a vulnerable group, they need our care and love.
 

This piece mainly establishes three basic sound colors: (1) Tension, struggling, and conflicting colors express the fear and anger of animals when they are killed by humans. This color also depicts their endless hatred for humans killing them. (2) The powerful and explosive color reflects the process of people constantly reflecting on themselves after suffering the retribution of nature and animals, and people are starting to respect and save more lives through their own strength and determination. (3) The more harmonious, warm, and transparent colors describe the animals' beautiful home and their endless gratitude when they are finally saved by humans.
 

Friends, please stop hurting these sentient beings. When you went to kill them, did you hear their helpless wailing? Please hurry up and join an animal mercy release team and help more animal lives together! When we give our sincere heart to help other lives, we will surely gain eternal peace and happiness in our hearts as well. I hope we as humans will not kill them. In the big family of the Earth, let people live in harmony with animals, and make this blue planet become a truly harmonious and beautiful family!
 

作品简介:

    任何一个众生，小至蚊虫蚂蚁，大至狮子大象，只要有生命，对苦乐都有共同的感受。它们也爱自己的儿女，不想失去生命。作品《生命的呼唤》灵感来源于我 15 年来参加放生活动的经历与感受。从一次次的放生活动中，我不断的思考: 我们在杀害它们的时候是否听到了它们对生命的渴望和呼唤？我们是否忍心将自己的快乐建立在动物的痛苦之上？原本它们拥有一个美好的大家庭，它们也有自己的父母和儿女，快快乐乐地生活在大自然当中。但是它们每天也害怕死亡，它们也有恐惧，因为有很多的人为了满足金钱或者自己自己的口欲，为了所谓的“营养”去伤害他们，让他们妻离子散。它们也想要快乐，不想有痛苦。作为弱势群体，它们更需要我们的呵护和关爱。
 

这部作品主要建立了三种基本的音响色彩。（1）紧张，挣扎，而富有冲突性的色彩表达了动物们在遭受到杀害时的恐惧与愤怒以及它们对人类杀害他们行为无尽的恨。（2）有力量，有爆发力的色彩反映了人们在遭受大自然的报应后，不断反思自己，通过自己的力量和坚定不移的心，从而救助更多的生命的过程。（3）更加和谐，温暖，具有透明性的色彩描写了动物们的美好的家园以及他们在得到人类救助时所表现的无尽感激之情。
 

朋友们，请不要再伤害那些有情众生吧，当你去杀害他们的时候，是否听到了他们内心无助的哀嚎？请快快加入到放生的队伍里来，一起救助更多的生命吧！当我们付出自己的真心去帮助其他生命的时候，我们必将获得自己内心永远的平静与快乐。愿我们人类不要杀生，在地球这个大家庭里，让人与动物和谐相处，让这蓝色星球变成一个真正和谐美好的大家庭！