Sunday, December 7, 2025 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Celebrate the holiday season with an enchanting program of new music from the Bard Chinese Ensemble! This year’s program flows like a river of imagination — from the mist-veiled bridges of Jiagnan to the shadowed realm of spirits and demons, re-imagined through the lens of a German composer. One work invites the audience to experience three Asian fruits, transforming taste into sound, while the finale — essentially a Chinese La Mer — evokes the many facets of China’s rivers. Through these journeys, tradition breathes anew: in the poetry of nature, the pulse of myth, the colors and fragrances of tropical fruit, and the eternal song of flowing water. Come enjoy the sensational sounds of this large ensemble featuring a unique blend of Chinese and Western instruments. Ensemble music director Shutong Li conducts. FREE and open to the public.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Guqin artist Zhao Jingyang regularly performs and lectures at institutions in Beijing, greater China, and abroad. He continues and builds on the playing tradition of his teacher and mentor, the world class guqin master, Li Xiangting, who in turn was the protégé of legendary guqin master Guan Pinghu. Jinyang is the founder and head of the Jinghua Guqin Society, located in Beijing, and the principal director for the Central Conservatory of Music’s Pedagogy and Proficiency Certification Center.
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Presented by the Bard Conservatory's U.S.-China Music Institute, with an introduction by Susan Blake, visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Bard College. Bitó Conservatory Building3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Program will include: Ambush on Ten Sides 十面埋伏 Lofty Mountains and Falling Waters 高山流水 The Moon Over Fortified Pass 關山月 Variations on Yang Guan 陽關三疊 Moonlit River in Spring 春江花月夜 Song of Henan 河南小曲 Melody of the Purple Bamboo 紫竹調 Birds in the Forest 鳥投林
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