An Introduction to the Music Sheet - Autumn Fog

(July 21, 2014)

Ms. Wenyi:

I had ever met a thick fog in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA in September 12,
1991. Objects beyond twenty meters become very blurred. Not only the Great
Smoky Mountain was completely blocked by the fog, which was clearly visible in the
sunny days, but also neighbors brick houses, trees, bushes and flowers had become
very hazy. However, perhaps due to the high humidity and density of the air, which
helped the speed up acoustic conduction, the song of insects was clearly audible.
Singing by crickets sounded particularly sweet. The beautiful visual and auditory
effects caused by fog inspired me to write a short poem 'Autumn Fog', which has
only 28 Chinese characters.

Twenty-three years later, aged 77, I found that poem again from old
documents and I scanned it to produce an electronic version with reversed color
(see attachment). I sent that piece of my calligraphy artwork of that poem to my old
friend Prof. Kuo-Chen Chou, who is a well renowned authority in molecular
configuration computation, and another Dallas acquaintance Mr. Yu Ying-Le. I had
got good feedbacks from them with admirations. Those two persons are especially
good at music appreciation. To express my thanks to them, I spend two days to have
composed a song for my old poem as lyrics. Now, I am attaching that music sheet
here thus my other relatives and friends could appreciate it, or, do some singing-
practices.

Johnson Gao




1991 9 12
The Great Smoky Mountain)

World famous professor in molecular
configuration computation Kuo-Chen Chou) Dallas

Please feed back to jkxgao@gail.com