Details

Year: 2022
Duration: 18’
Instrumentation: solo piano
Commissioner: Amy Yang
Premiere: Fall 2022, Amy Yang, piano

Notebook Fragments (2022)

Movements

I. I sounded like a fire, for no reason. 
II. 6:24 a.m. Greyhound station. One-way ticket to New York City: $36.75
III. My hands were daylight all through the night.
IV. The way they formed brief churches over the table as he searched for the right words.
V. I promise to stop soon.
VI. I'm going to lose it when Whitney Houston dies.
VII. Maybe rain is 'sweet' because it falls through so much of the world.
VIII. Here. That's all I wanted to be.

from Ocean Vuong’s “Notebook Fragments” which appears in his collection “Night Sky with Exit Wounds”