Jennifer Hou performed on piano at Wesley today. It started with Ravel Sonatine, but then on to Caroline Shaw, a modern US composer, and Zhang Zhao, Chinese and Jennifer's background, Poem of sound, a Hani love song, from Two songs to dear parents. These were interesting works and Jennifer played them with real skill and respect. Ravel pretty obvious with emotionally rich and varied lyrical storytelling, flowing screens of notes with triplets on each beat. The Caroline Shaw was Gustave Le Gray, initially meditative, repetitive with slight change then into chordal movements, apparently based on a Chopin mazurka. Then Zhang Zhou which featured Chinese scales but I had not heard dissonance. Jennifer informed me they were pentatonics, presumably major pentatonic, and obviously comfortable to jazzers and others but perhaps this music has a more delayed sense of time that I felt and occasional teeming waterfalls of notes. But all wonderfully prepared and comfortably played. Quite a different pianistic experience with new and culturally varied compositions. Fascinating.
Jennifer Hou (piano) performed at Wesley.
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