Yuri Lee - composer • violinist

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Truly the Sun

April 2023 (for solo trombone)

“In the origin, women were truly the sun, genuine human beings. Now, women are the moon. Living by the light of others and shining with a pale, sickly light, like the face of someone with an illness. We must now take back our sun that has been hidden away.”

- Hiratsuka Raichō

Commissioned and premiered by Grace Ng at her Juilliard Pre-College Senior Recital on May 6th, 2023.

illustrated by Satoko Kitagawa

『元始、女性は実に太陽であった。真正の 人であった。今、女性は月である。他に よって生き、他の光によって輝く、病人の ような蒼白い顔の月である。... 私ども は、かくされてしまった我が太陽を今や 取り戻さなければならぬ。』

- 平塚 らいちょう