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Sounds of China:
Celebrating Chinese New Year
Michael Morgan, Conductor
February 22, 2008
Friday, 8:00pm,
Paramount Theatre, Oakland
7pm: Pre-Concert Talk by
John Kendall
Bailey & composer Jon Jang
Program
John
Adams
The Chairman Dances:
Foxtrot for Orchestra
(1985)
Tan Dun
Water Concerto for Water Percussion
and
Orchestra (1998)
Ward Spangler,
percussion
Igor Stravinsky
Fireworks
(1908)
Jon Jang
Chinese American Symphony (2007)
(Co-commission with the Sacramento Philharmonic
funded
by The Creative Work
Fund and
Chinese Historical
Society of America.)
Jiebing Chen,
Erhu
To commemorate Chinese New
Year, we'll perform works by two Chinese composers -- Jon Jang and Academy
Award-winning composer Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) -- as
well as John Adams' entertaining Chairman Dances, inspired by his opera
Nixon in China.
Water Concerto for Water Percussion, written
in memory of composer Toru Takemitsu, uses a variety of non-traditional
instruments, including water gongs, basins, tubes and shakers, to create a
unique sound in harmony with the orchestra.
In his new Chinese
American Symphony, commissioned by OEBS and the Sacramento Philharmonic,
Jon Jang gives musical voice to a history that has been silent, paying tribute
to the Chinese laborers who built the first transcontinental railroad. The
classical Chinese instrument, the erhu, is featured with the orchestra.
The Chairman Dances, a delightful, light-hearted piece by
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams, depicts Madame Mao dancing with an
effigy of her husband while President Nixon plays cocktail piano
.
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Concert presented by
Foster &
Associates
and
The Chinese
Historical Society of America is the commission co-sponsor of Jon Jang's
Chinese American Symphony
Concert Radio
Sponsor
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