LEOPARD CAT (拾虎)- HANNAH HSIEH
Commissioned Composition by Tainan Chinese Orchestra / Sponsored by National Culture and Arts Foundation.
Tainan Chinese Orchestra produced the music program which is called Our Island, has entrusted some of the Taiwanese composers to cooperating into this projects. The content of the project is talking about to protect the animals which are on the verge of extinction. Using the dulcimer as the main instrument to represent peculiar animals that the composer chose, but also can showing the vitality of Taiwan. Tainan Chinese Orchestra has entrusted the composer "Hannah Hsieh" for composing Leopard Cat and was Premiering on Dec. 19, 2020 at National University of Tainan Ya-Yin Concert Hall.
Fewer than 500 leopard cats (P. bengalensis) are living in Miaoli, a county located in mid-Taiwan, and are on the verge of extinction. Most of the leopard cats are dead by car accident and kill with poison unintentionally. The composer, "Hannah Hsieh" as a local would like to do something for leopard cats also call people to face this issue; therefore, she decided to use the dulcimer as the main instrument representing the characteristic of Leopard Cat to compose the song, and including cello, piano, bass and percussion as the accompaniment instruments.
Fewer than 500 leopard cats (P. bengalensis) are living in Miaoli, a county located in mid-Taiwan, and are on the verge of extinction. Most of the leopard cats are dead by car accident and kill with poison unintentionally. The composer, "Hannah Hsieh" as a local would like to do something for leopard cats also call people to face this issue; therefore, she decided to use the dulcimer as the main instrument representing the characteristic of Leopard Cat to compose the song, and including cello, piano, bass and percussion as the accompaniment instruments.