The 2022 China Now Music Festival challenges notions of what it means to present music from the ‘East’ or the ‘West’ with musical programs that highlight historic and contemporary intersections between China and the West in classical music. Tales From Beijing is the first of three festival concerts in New York City during the 2022 Season. Conductor Jindong Cai presents a program of operatic and symphonic music with stories from the streets, alleyways, and majestic outskirts of Beijing. The Orchestra Now and guests will perform a program of works by Ye Xiaogang, Guo Wenjing, and Aaron Avshalomov.
EAST
OF WEST
OCTOBER 7-22
2022
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Conductor Jindong Cai with pianist Xiaofu Ju and The Orchestra Now at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, January 2022. Photo: Guan Liming
PROGRAM
Aaron Avshalomov
Hutongs of Peking (1931) 北京胡同
Guo Wenjing 郭文景
Selections from the Opera Rickshaw Boy - Xiangzi and Huniu (2014) 《骆驼祥子》选曲:祥子与虎妞
Yi Li, tenor; Manli Deng, soprano
INTERMISSION
Ye Xiaogang 叶小纲
Symphony No. 2 The Great Wall (2002) 第二交响曲“⻓城”
Yi Li, tenor; Manli Deng, soprano
Xiaofu Ju, piano; Feifei Yang, erhu
PERFORMERS
The 2022 China Now Music Festival is presented in collaboration with the Central Conservatory of Music, China in celebration of the first five years of the US-China Music Institute at Bard College.