Ants Moving a Mountain

Guitar (or piano) and choir

This work is based on a poem by the Taiwanese poet Xie An-Tong and can be performed with a guitar backing a small group of Singers, or a piano backing a larger choir. The vocal parts are only set for two voices, soprano and baritone, and are set in Taiwanese both in their script and phonetically in our alphabet, and moreover are expected also to provide the tambourine and bass drum parts too. The guitar part, which mirrors the piano part, which is not meant to be played at the same time, is relatively easy throughout most of the piece, only getting a little more adventurous at the closing section. The music is very modal in style and extremely pleasant and I could see a relatively inexperienced group of musicians having a lot of fun with this little gem.
Chris Dumigan (Classical Guitar Magazine)