for violin, cello, and pianoSecluded Orchid is based on the guqin melody, "You Lan in the Mode of Jie Shi," the oldest extant music for this ancient stringed instrument (a plucked seven-string member of the zither family). The work evokes the original character and moods of guqin music-dark anger, melancholy, tranquillity, and exhilaration.