Driving On Barnet Highway

By Creative Projects By Theresa / Theresa Yun Sze Lo

Driving  On Barnet Highway Album Cover Image

 

Release Date:  Oct 4, 2020


This is my very first album since I started composing in 2018. 


Program Notes

1.  Driving on Barnet Highway (On a Sunny Day)

Completion and Premier Date: April 24, 2019

I was driving on Barnet Hwy in a morning. After it rained for several days, I finally got some sunshine on that day. Looking outside of the window, I saw some white cloud flowing in the blue sky. With the river on my left, the mountain on my right and not much cars on the highway, the happiness suddenly filled with my heart. Since then, I've decided to compose a music with such feeling.

2.  Sitting In a Lecture (In a Hotel)

Completion and Premier Date:  September 24, 2020

After sharing some of my music to the groups I joined, some of them suggested to me to write a music about a lecture. 

To me, some of the lectures are short and fun to attend.  However, due to my work nature, I usually attend lectures that are full-day ones.  Attending these full-day lectures sometimes make me feel a bit tiring and boring especially when it's sunny outside.  But good things about these lectures are that I get to have some time chatting with other attendees, to have a good lunch meal in the hotels I am attending, to have coffee breaks enjoying the coffees and snacks and to have a chance to learn something new from the lecturers.  Occasionally, I get to see some lecturers presenting the information in a funny way.  

This music is trying to show the feelings I got in the past when I attended some of these full-day lectures.

3.  My Baby Girl

Completion and Premier Date:  November 7, 2018 (First Version) / October 4, 2020 (Second Version)

Originally, this music piece was named after my daughter because, to me, she's the cutest baby on earth.  However, later on, I changed the name to My Baby Girl, as she's not a baby anymore.  She became a little monster to me now.

The first version was finished with a woman voice humming the melody while the piano was playing the accompaniment.  This version was revised with 2 xylophones and a violin playing the melody while the piano was playing the accompaniment.

4.  Don't Play Games With Me

Completion and Premier Date:  March 13, 2019

Few months ago, something happened to my workplace. I became so mad at one of my clients because I was felt being played by that client. To release my anger, I composed the first part of the melody and the accompaniment. Few days later, things got resolved. The anger's gone, but this piece is here. So, I decided to finish the rest.

5.  Funny Moments

Completion and Premier Date:  October 3, 2020

When kids are young, they are adventurous and curious.  So is my daughter.  In this music piece, I wrote the beginning and last parts after seeing my daughter laughing at an operating washing machine.  After putting it down a few days, I picked it up and finished the middle part of the music.


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