Composer Introduction

Lu Minzuo is a PhD candidate in composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Introduction to the work

The inspiration of this work is from one of composer’s travel experience in Venice in February 2018: At One gloomy night, the composer was floating on the canal in a local boat called a gondola. She felt the coldness of the whole world. It was unsearchable, archaic, dim, prosperous and dreamily.
Landscapes were quieting unsteadily, lights were bright-colored, gorgeous, and even multicolored. It looked like so many erose-black ambulatory mirrors, each of which penetrated though the islets, broke up the area, moved the buildings and created oil pantings on the water. In the meantime, the composer heard a beautiful soprano singing a romantic melody, subtly melancholic with a timbral twilight. Her voice was accompanied by the sound of water, the waves, the lights......the composer was destined to be enraptured by her beautiful voice......