Fri 4/11 @ 7:30-9PM
The Chinese Musicians Association of North America (CMA-NA) brings together Chinese musicians living in north America to create together.
Six of these musicians from across the U.S. and Canada, with backgrounds in different regions of China, are coming together at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium to present a program called “The Sound of Blooming: A Musical Tale of Spring.” They include a member of the Cleveland Orchestra’s first violin section (Zhan Shu), artists who have worked with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, and faculty members from Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music. They play piano, organ and violin, as well as the traditional Chinese instruments pipa, erhu and guzheng.
Among the pieces on their program is a world premiere of a new composition created for this specific concert by composer Wang Lu, an association professor of music at Brown University. At this point it’s titled simply “Wang Lu’s New Composition” and described as a merging of “two ancient instruments from East and West into an awe-inspiring musical experience.” Other pieces draw on traditional Chinese cultural influences as well as western ones, as the combination of instruments would lead you to expect.
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