This chapter explores the performance of Liang Lei's string quartet 'Gobi Praise', highlighting its blend of Western instruments with the traditional sounds of Inner Mongolian folk music.
Liang Lei is a Chinese-American composer known for incorporating Inner Mongolian folk melodies into Western classical music.
His piece 'Gobi Praise' uses Western string instruments to mimic the sound of the morin khuur, a traditional Mongolian horsehead fiddle.
The performance evoked the vastness and solitude of the Mongolian grasslands.