SINGAPORE - More than five years ago, composer Chua Jon Lin got cancer.
Diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma while she was still a student at the Eastman School of Music in New York, she lay in bed with a manuscript and pencil in hand, soldiering through her commissions - a collection of seven short pieces for the MusicaNova Orchestra in Arizona, and a solo piano work inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's play Huis Clos (translated from French as "No Exit").
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