The Falling of Blossoms (2014)

for Solo Piano

Program Note

When life gets us down, we fall. We fall into the deep bottom of our hearts. Sometimes the fall is so slow that we don't even notice we're actually going down, just like we usually don't notice that cherry blossoms are withering every day by falling in the late spring. Those blossoms are ourselves. They fall because it's time to fall, but they look breathtakingly beautiful.
This Solo piano piece has a reflection of the procedure of falling which I usually experience when I'm depressed. In this piece, the layers of the piano's wide register represent the deep depths of our hearts. The twinking tones float freely on every register like flower leaves. With these twinkling tone colors, the figure moves slowly to the bottom. Once it reaches, it struggles to get out of there, but it can't. The harder it tries, more quickly it gets to come back to certain repeating melodies and figures on a certain register for being caged. And then, it plunges to the bottom again. But slowly, it learns how to overcome this beautifully desperate situation.