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University of Notre Dame LaBar Performance Hall February 9, 2024 www.patrickyimviolin.com Chan Hing-yan: Autumn Comes for violin u0026 sheng (2023) I. As the Wind Gusts Through II. By a Guttering Lamplight III. In Rain’s Chill IV. Autumn at a Haunted Graveyard Chan Hing-yan: Autumn Comes Li He (790-816) was a highly original poet of the Middle Tang (ca. 762-827). His poems showcased intricate structures, extraordinary imagination, and were adorned with exquisite and imaginative language. Within the lines of his poetry, one could often find a profusion of novel and beautiful expressions, along with captivating surreal imagery. His deliberate pursuit of innovation in the realm of creative endeavours was notably avant-garde. Autumn Comes is inspired by Li He's poem of the same title and, through four succinct movements, deliberately interprets the poem's hauntingly melancholic and alluring ambiance. 桐風驚⼼壯⼠苦 衰燈絡緯啼寒素 誰看青簡⼀編書 不遣花蟲粉空蠹 思牽今夜腸應直 ⾬冷⾹魂弔書客 秋墳鬼唱鮑家詩 恨⾎千年⼟中碧 Wind through wutong-trees shocks the heart, stalwart men are grieved; by the guttering lamp, crickets weep in the chill pallor. Who ever saw a single roll of writing on green slips not rendered up to the florid bugs and gnawed to powdery nothing? “Tug at the thoughts”? – on such a night one’s guts should be pulled straight; in rain’s chill, a fragrant soul pays respects to the bookish wayfarer. In the autumn graveyard, ghosts sing poems of Master Bao whose aggrieved blood endures a thousand years, green jade in the dirt. (Poem translated by Robert Ashmore)