The opening concert of the 2022 the China Now Music Festival takes us to the streets, alleyways, and majestic outskirts of Beijing with a program featuring selections from Guo Wenjing’s opera Rickshaw Boy, Ye Xiaogang’s powerful Great Wall Symphony, and Russian-born Jewish American composer Aaron Avshalomov’s Hutongs of Peking. Jindong Cai conducts The Orchestra Now and guest soloists.
EAST
OF WEST
OCTOBER 7-22
2022
Tickets start at $20.
($5 tickets for Bard students are made possible by the Passloff Pass)
Jindong Cai at the Fisher Center during the 2021 China Now Music Festival. Photo: Karl Rabe
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.