ASIAN
AMERICAN
VOICES
The fourth annual China Now Music Festival concludes online with a selection of pieces from the Festival’s live concerts, presented to the worldwide public for free. The Del Sol Quartet and China Now Festival Chorus perform a preview of excerpts from Huang Ruo’s Angel Island: oratorio for voices and string quartet. The Orchestra Now performs selected episodes from An American Soldier, with tenor Li Yi, mezzo-soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen, soprano Helen Zhibing Huang, and live narration by librettist David Henry Hwang. The event concludes with two symphonic pieces by Peng-Peng Gong and Xinyan Li that further express the themes of Asian American experiences and reflections on this moment in history.
Program
DEL SOL QUARTET
CHINA NOW FESTIVAL CHORUS
Jindong Cai, conductor
Huang Ruo
Angel Island: oratorio for voices and string quartet (preview excerpts)
THE ORCHESTRA NOW
Jindong Cai, conductor
Huang Ruo, music
David Henry Hwang, libretto
Episodes from An American Soldier (opera, 2014)
David Henry Hwang, narrator
Li Yi, tenor
Nina Yoshida Nelsen, mezzo-soprano
Helen Zhibing Huang, soprano
Xinyan Li
Awakening Light, concerto for guzheng and orchestra (world premiere)
Yixin Wang, guzheng
Peng-Peng Gong
A Chinese in New York (2019)
featuring
Acknowledgements
Angel Island: Oratorio was commissioned by the Del Sol Performing Arts Organization, with support from the Hewlett Foundation “50 Arts Commissions,'" with additional funding by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.
Special thanks to the family of Danny Chen.