Classical Tahoe Music Festival presents Cynthia’s Shoreline (oboe, viola, harp)

Cynthia’s piece Shoreline will be performed at Classical Tahoe Music Festival this summer.
Program notes:
“The piece begins with Musiline [part mermaid, part human] walking along the shoreline, calling out to the mysterious man of her mother’s race, but there is no response. We flashback to Musiline’s past. Raised by her human father, she knew nothing of her mother or her non-human heritage and denied that part of herself. Instead, she followed convention and married a human man. Reflecting when a non-human stranger approached her at her wedding banquet, she remembers he had asked her to come with him before it was too late. She recalls the stranger warned her that her husband would not accept her completely. Eventually, this prediction came true. When her non-human self began to emerge, her husband grew disgusted and shunned her. Years later, he died at sea, but she did not miss him. The music returns to the present, with Musiline wandering the shoreline, calling for the stranger and a love that had never been realized.”
–Cynthia Lee Wong, based on a story by Janelle Evans