“Four Songs based on flowers” was commissioned by Pan Music Festival and premiered in 1996, Kim Young-Tae’s collection of poetry [Mae Hok(Charm)] comprises 111 poem, all exploring the theme of flowers; just like a variation form based on floral subjects. I chose four among them and retained the beginning of each poem as the title of each piece.
Originally conceived for soprano and orchestra, it premiered in the form of music for soprano with piano accompaniment, due to lack of time. Finally today, it is created in its original form. The poems used here do not explore the term of “flower” itself, and even the characteristics of the poetry are much closer to the aspects of recitation than sung form, the same characteristics I tried to express throughout the work Maybe that is what “Mae Hok (Charm)” in a flower is all about....
(Paik, Byung-dong Orchestral Works(CD) - Paik, Byung-dong / translation by Nany Han)
