Glaciers (March, 2026)
Video by Marc Webster
Music composed by Meilina Tsui
Music commissioned by fivebyfive
Music performed by fivebyfive at the Strasenbugh Planetarium, Rochester, New York
Flute: Lana Stafford
Clarinet: Marcy Bacon
Electric Guitar: Ken Luk
Piano: Haeyeun Jeun
Acoustic Bass: Eric J. Polenik
Audio recording: Marc Webster
This video was part of fivebyfive's Wonders of Water live video concert, a breathtaking multimedia experience beneath the dome of the Strasenburgh Planetarium. This program dives into the essential element that connects us all: water. Through evocative music and immersive full-dome visuals, Rochester’s chamber ensemble, fivebyfive, explores water’s beauty, strength, and vulnerability.
From composer Meilina Tsui, "Glaciers, written for flute, clarinet, piano, electric guitar, and double-bass, is a 7-min musical depiction of the life cycle of glaciers: from snowfall accumulating on high mountains, to the compression of firn, to glacial ice flowing downhill like a movingriver of ice, to the glacier then reaching the ocean where it calves and becomes icebergs"
For more about fivebyfive, please visit http://www.fivebyfivemusic.com
For more about Meilina Tsui, please visit https://www.meilinatsui.com/
Music composed by Meilina Tsui
Music commissioned by fivebyfive
Music performed by fivebyfive at the Strasenbugh Planetarium, Rochester, New York
Flute: Lana Stafford
Clarinet: Marcy Bacon
Electric Guitar: Ken Luk
Piano: Haeyeun Jeun
Acoustic Bass: Eric J. Polenik
Audio recording: Marc Webster
This video was part of fivebyfive's Wonders of Water live video concert, a breathtaking multimedia experience beneath the dome of the Strasenburgh Planetarium. This program dives into the essential element that connects us all: water. Through evocative music and immersive full-dome visuals, Rochester’s chamber ensemble, fivebyfive, explores water’s beauty, strength, and vulnerability.
From composer Meilina Tsui, "Glaciers, written for flute, clarinet, piano, electric guitar, and double-bass, is a 7-min musical depiction of the life cycle of glaciers: from snowfall accumulating on high mountains, to the compression of firn, to glacial ice flowing downhill like a movingriver of ice, to the glacier then reaching the ocean where it calves and becomes icebergs"
For more about fivebyfive, please visit http://www.fivebyfivemusic.com
For more about Meilina Tsui, please visit https://www.meilinatsui.com/