HUANG RUO
Wednesday, October 15 | 2008
6:00 PM a n d 7:30 PM
PROGRAM
Elegy: Sounds Ever Slow ... for Soprano and String Quartet
The Three Tenses: String Quartet No.1 for String Quartet
Variations for Piano (by Anton Webern) for Piano Solo
Tree Without Wind for Piano Solo
Drama III: Written on the Wind a Multi-Media Drama for Pipa, Voice, and Kinetic Painting
Drama IV: To The Four Corners Drama for Flute, Clarinet, Percussion, Violin, and Viola (only at 6 PM)
Drama II: Shifting Shades Drama for Cello, Percussion, Piano, and 18 Beer Bottles (only at 7:30 PM)
Performers:
Min-Xiao Fen, Pipa
Jiang Fang-Tao, Soprano
Stephen Buck, Piano
IO String Quartet
Future In REverse (FIRE)
Huang Ruo, Conductor
Huang Ruo was born in Hainan Island, 1976, the year the Chinese culture revolution ended. In the 80s and the 90s, when China was steadily opening up its gate to the Western world, he received both traditional and western education in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Later he moved to the United States for his BA, MA and doctor of Musical Art degree. Hailed by The Wall Street Journal as "strikingly assured," Huang's music has been performed by numerous renowned orchestras on places all over the world.
Sometimes I would mix reality and memory and also imaginations. So, sound for me is a main resource from whatever sound I hear on the streets or from when I go to sleep, I dream about sounds. Since I have this memory: I wrote the best piece ever in my dream, and when I get up I just forgot it, I was so upset with myself! I really wish to relive that moment. I'm sure it happens to a lot of people, you just wish to continue a dream but you can't. Huang Ruo, 2008
Reprinted with kind the permission of: New York Public Radio, WNYC 93.9 FM. Interview by Alex Ambrose.
RESERVATIONS |
Free admission. Reservations required.
For reservations, please call ACF's reservation line at (212) 319 5300 ext. 222 or email reservations@acfny.org.
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VENUE |
Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street
(between 5th Ave. and Madison Ave.)
New York, NY 10022
212 319 5300
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