Daixuan Ai’s Childhood Memories

OVERVIEW

Like Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Childhood Memories is a collection of short character pieces that recreate different snapshots from the composer’s childhood. Each movement is self-contained. Yet there are recurring themes in both the music and the poems that thread through the entire work, making of it a coherent story about the joy and pain of growing up.

PERFORMERS

Katarina Ignatovich flute
Michael Tran clarinet
Diane Yang violin
Nelson Mendoza violin
Teddy Schenkman viola
Lindsey Sharpe cello
Hyejin Joo piano
Charley Gillette percussion

SPONSORS

The 2022/23 Civic Orchestra season was generously sponsored by the Julian Family Foundation, which also provides major funding for the Civic Fellowship program.

ABOUT

This work was selected in a national call for scores by the Fellows of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago in 2023.