Alice Ping Yee Ho is a Canadian composer by way of Hong Kong, and Centrediscs' Ming is the first full-length disc devoted entirely to her works. As the program is devoted to her percussion music, expertly performed by eminent Canadian percussionist Beverley Johnston with help from the University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble and the Penderecki String Quartet, one might get the mistaken impression that Ho is a "percussion composer." Ho is quite prolific and scores works for a wide variety of instrumental mediums including ...
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Alice Ping Yee Ho is a Canadian composer by way of Hong Kong, and Centrediscs' Ming is the first full-length disc devoted entirely to her works. As the program is devoted to her percussion music, expertly performed by eminent Canadian percussionist Beverley Johnston with help from the University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble and the Penderecki String Quartet, one might get the mistaken impression that Ho is a "percussion composer." Ho is quite prolific and scores works for a wide variety of instrumental mediums including the orchestra, chamber compositions, piano and electronic pieces, and music for theater and film. However, percussion also plays an important role in her other music; she has written a concerto for marimba, another for percussion ensemble and orchestra, and percussion instruments turn up in her chamber music, as well.Ho has stated that, "My music has a rich array of dynamic forces, rhythmic energy and harmonic accessibility;" that's not leaving much for her critics to further...
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