Music From China & Talujon Percussion: Tales from the Cave
8 – 9:45PM
Music From China and Talujon Percussion collaborate in a rare concert of contemporary music for percussion quartet and Chinese ensemble.
Harold Meltzer‘s Guangzhou Circle, commissioned for the collaboration and making its world premiere, represents the composer’s intimate response to a work of architecture, a circular skyscraper in China called Guangzhou Circle. The building’s design is inspired by the ancient and iconic Chinese image of double jade discs (symbols for infinity) where the disc-shaped building is “doubled” by its reflection in the Pearl River. Written for huqin and percussion quartet, Zhou Long’s Tales from the Cave is inspired by the art of the Dunhuang Mogaoku grottoes and folk music from this Silk Road region. Using Chinese ensemble and percussion quartet, Ling Long by composer Xie Peng is a metaphor for a state of exquisite beauty, drawing from elements of Beijing Opera.
On its own, Talujon performs Qu Xiaosong’s Lam Mot for three percussionists. Music From China performs Wang Guowei’s Tea House II for erhu, pipa and zheng, a reflection on the tea house as a focal point of Chinese folk life.
Music From China: Wang Guowei, erhu; Sun Li, pipa; Zhou Jing, zheng; Anna Urrey, dizi
Talujon: Matthew Ward, Michael Lipsey, Mathew Gold, David Cossins