Musical Program

Béla Bartók | String Quartet No. 3
Shih Hui Chen | Returning Souls: Four Short Pieces on Three Formosan Amis Legends
László Weiner | Duo for Violin and Viola
Wei-Chieh Lin | Pasibutbut

Fleeting Melodies is an homage to the music that lives in memory, drawing inspiration from Hungarian and Taiwanese folklore, and celebrating cultural heritage through contemporary expression. The journey begins with Bartók’s rhythmically urgent and complex String Quartet No. 3, followed by Chen’s Returning Souls, presenting variations of an “ethnic style” reflecting her experiences returning to her native Taiwan as a Fulbright Scholar specifically to study its music. In the second half, discover the musical legacy of Hungarian composer László Weiner, whose life was tragically cut short by the Nazi’s during the Holocaust; followed by Wei-Chieh Lin’s Pasibutbut: a prayer song for a rich millet harvest from the Indigenous Bunun people of Taiwan, who believe that the successes of the harvest is dependent on how harmoniously the song is sung to praise God.