Beautiful"), to Japanese opera. Analysis of The Seasons One of Dong's latest pieces, entitled The Seasons or Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, also is from her "fusion period". The first movement, "Spring", is included on an album Ring of Fire released by the Del Sol String Quartet on the Other Minds label, which includes composers, including Dong, who have worked extensively on the Pacific Rim. The piece is written for string quartet and four Chinese musicians, who play the zheng (Chinese harp), dulcimer, sheng (mouth organ), and Chinese percussion (bass drum, tom-tom, cymbal, opera gongs, temple blocks). Dong says that the work is an homage to John Cage and Antonio Vivaldi, who both wrote music inspired based on the four seasons, solo piano in the case of John Cage, and a violin concerto in the case of Vivaldi. The first movement, "Spring", is based on a symmetrical chord structure based on the third (C, E) and gradually moving outward in thirds to expand the chord (A, C, E, G, then F, A, C, E, G, B). The entire piece basically moves from an Am7 chord to a F11 chord. References External links Personal website NonPop composer profile with interview audio Dartmouth faculty profile Liner notes for Pangu's Song Stanford bio and Flying Apples Hands like Waves Unfold Tokafi interview Stephen Brookes review 1966 births Living people 20th-century classical composers 20th-century women composers 21st-century classical composers 21st-century women composers Chinese classical composers Chinese women classical composers Chinese emigrants to the United States Educators from Beijing Musicians from Beijing Women in electronic music Dartmouth College faculty Stanford University alumni