Abstract
Online Premiere of "Mind Stretch" - No. 8 of the Boston Etudes Project by Yu-Hui Chang.
BOSTON ETUDES is a project initiated by pianist Jihye Chang, for which she commissioned 8 Boston-based composers to each write a new piano étude for a series of virtual premieres on YouTube during the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of this project, Yu-Hui’s “Mind Stretch” is not only an exercise of the pianist’s physical virtuosity, but also a test of her mental agility with its quick changes of musical gestures and expressions. After the online premiere on December 9th, 2021, “Mind Stretch”, along with all the études in this project, eventually received an in-person premiere on February 25th, 2022, at Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University.