Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds
    Commission: by New Sounds Music, Incorporated, for the PRISM Quartet
      Prize:
                  2007     SCI/ASCAP Competition (Second Prize--Region V East)

      Performances:                                    
                    May 19, 2006     PRISM Quartet (Thalia @ Symphony Space, New York, NY) 

                                           

                    May 20, 2006     PRISM Quartet (Trinity Center for Urban Life, Philadelphia, PA)
               

        Program note:   

Elegy(2005-6) is written in loving memory of my grandfather, Tsai-Chih Yen, who died in September 2005 at the age of 85. He was in his sickbed for a long time. During his final months, his severe condition caused him to rely on medical devices to sustain his vital functions. While our family was mourning, death to him was actually a relief. I would like to send him my love through this music. May he rest in peace.