Eden (For Full Orchestra)
Perusal score only - please contact me for score and parts!
For full orchestra
2(pic)13(bcl)3(cbn) / 2221 / timp.3perc / hp.pf.cel / str
Original composition by Alice Hong
2025
Length - 11:00
Written for and premiered by the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra
What an honor it is to write a piece for the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, the youth orchestra that gave me countless cherished memories, life-long friendships, and the conviction to pursue a life of music.
Working on Eden gave me an opportunity to step back in the shoes of my high school self, looking forward all week to Saturday morning ASYO rehearsals in Atlanta Symphony Hall and getting a glimpse of what life was like to live and breathe music.
During my first year as a violinist in the ASYO, I was enrolled in AP Language, taught by Kelly Bryan at Walton High School. One of our assignments was an open-format project on "Paradise Lost" by John Milton, an epic about the book of Genesis from the Bible, and the exile of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. For my project, I decided to compose a piece based on the epic. Over a decade later, I felt that it was fitting to take the theme I had written for "Paradise Lost" and give it life again. After all, ASYO was my paradise, my Eden.
And while I can't say that paradise has been lost after moving on beyond youth orchestra, I will always embrace my youth orchestra memories as a time of purest joy.
And thank you to the Atlanta Chamber Players and the judges of the Rapido! Cycle 7 Composition Contest - Jennifer Higdon, Michael Gandolfi, Gaetan Le Divelec, and Brian Raphael Nabors - for entrusting me with this work.
Perusal score only - please contact me for score and parts!
For full orchestra
2(pic)13(bcl)3(cbn) / 2221 / timp.3perc / hp.pf.cel / str
Original composition by Alice Hong
2025
Length - 11:00
Written for and premiered by the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra
What an honor it is to write a piece for the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, the youth orchestra that gave me countless cherished memories, life-long friendships, and the conviction to pursue a life of music.
Working on Eden gave me an opportunity to step back in the shoes of my high school self, looking forward all week to Saturday morning ASYO rehearsals in Atlanta Symphony Hall and getting a glimpse of what life was like to live and breathe music.
During my first year as a violinist in the ASYO, I was enrolled in AP Language, taught by Kelly Bryan at Walton High School. One of our assignments was an open-format project on "Paradise Lost" by John Milton, an epic about the book of Genesis from the Bible, and the exile of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. For my project, I decided to compose a piece based on the epic. Over a decade later, I felt that it was fitting to take the theme I had written for "Paradise Lost" and give it life again. After all, ASYO was my paradise, my Eden.
And while I can't say that paradise has been lost after moving on beyond youth orchestra, I will always embrace my youth orchestra memories as a time of purest joy.
And thank you to the Atlanta Chamber Players and the judges of the Rapido! Cycle 7 Composition Contest - Jennifer Higdon, Michael Gandolfi, Gaetan Le Divelec, and Brian Raphael Nabors - for entrusting me with this work.
Perusal score only - please contact me for score and parts!
For full orchestra
2(pic)13(bcl)3(cbn) / 2221 / timp.3perc / hp.pf.cel / str
Original composition by Alice Hong
2025
Length - 11:00
Written for and premiered by the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra
What an honor it is to write a piece for the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, the youth orchestra that gave me countless cherished memories, life-long friendships, and the conviction to pursue a life of music.
Working on Eden gave me an opportunity to step back in the shoes of my high school self, looking forward all week to Saturday morning ASYO rehearsals in Atlanta Symphony Hall and getting a glimpse of what life was like to live and breathe music.
During my first year as a violinist in the ASYO, I was enrolled in AP Language, taught by Kelly Bryan at Walton High School. One of our assignments was an open-format project on "Paradise Lost" by John Milton, an epic about the book of Genesis from the Bible, and the exile of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. For my project, I decided to compose a piece based on the epic. Over a decade later, I felt that it was fitting to take the theme I had written for "Paradise Lost" and give it life again. After all, ASYO was my paradise, my Eden.
And while I can't say that paradise has been lost after moving on beyond youth orchestra, I will always embrace my youth orchestra memories as a time of purest joy.
And thank you to the Atlanta Chamber Players and the judges of the Rapido! Cycle 7 Composition Contest - Jennifer Higdon, Michael Gandolfi, Gaetan Le Divelec, and Brian Raphael Nabors - for entrusting me with this work.