title
deer
year of composition
2024
instrumentation
sorikkun, buk, and mixed choir
duration
4'
program notes
The North Korean folk song Saseum Taryeong (Deer Song), discovered in 1980 in Taecheon County, North Pyongan Province, expresses the perspective of a deer, lamenting how humans capture deer to make ritual implements, ropes, and other goods. While the melody of the original folk song has largely disappeared, the lyrics still resonate across time. The image of ourselves contained in this song, sung by a woman in her seventies in North Korea forty years ago, remains unchanged.
performance history
december 13, 2024 | busan, south korea
mijin kim · sorikkun
busan conductors' choir
kangkyu kim · conductor
