Duration: 7 minutes
      Commission: by Jun Qian

      Performances:                                                                                        
                  May 17, 2006    Centre Culturel de Chine  (Paris, France)
                                                         Jun Qian, clarinet
                 Aug 12, 2006      Composition Recital by Aspen Individual Studies
                                               (Opera Hall, Aspen Music Festival and School)
                                                         Delia Saab-Snyder, clarinet
                 Mar 12, 2007      Composers' Forum (Britton Recital Hall, Ann Arbor, MI)
                                                         Lisa Raschiatore, clarinet     

                        

        Program note:   

This piece is inspired by the image of a beam of light coming through a tiny hole in the dark. The light is not bigger than a dot, but is warm and full of passionate; it is attempting to break the darkness and the coldness.