Description
Perusal Score
Video
Osnat Netzer: Datsuzoku, I. "Rock Garden"
Duration
18 min
Premiere
May 13, 2023
Shadyside Presbyterian Church
Pittsburgh, PA
Kassia Ensemble:
Dawn Posey and Ashley Freeburn, violins
Si Yu, viola
Katya Janpoladyan, cello
Rachael Stutzman Cohen, clarinet
Nuiko Wadden, harp,
Emily Tarantino, conductor
Shadyside Presbyterian Church
Pittsburgh, PA
Kassia Ensemble:
Dawn Posey and Ashley Freeburn, violins
Si Yu, viola
Katya Janpoladyan, cello
Rachael Stutzman Cohen, clarinet
Nuiko Wadden, harp,
Emily Tarantino, conductor
Commissioner
Kassia Ensemble
Instrumentation
clarinet, harp, string quartet
Program Notes
Datsuzoku is one of the seven aesthetic principles of zen. It represents freedom from habit or formula. Each one of the movements is either the representation of a garden, or the relationship between human to garden.
1. Rock Garden
2. Butterfly Garden
3. Aviary
4. Traversing
5. The All-Garden
While the first three movements represent the garden as a space, location, natural and cultivated entity, the fourth movement (Traversing) represents the human traveling through the garden, and eventually, plants and living organisms become integrated in the fifth movement (the All-Garden).
–Osnat Netzer