FREE ENGAGEMENT EVENT Monday, February 8 . 7PM
FREE ENGAGEMENT EVENT Thursday, February 11 . 7PM
CREATIVE DIALOGUE
THE ESSENCE OF HOME
KRONOS QUARTET PHOTO BY MICHAEL WILSON
WU MAN PHOTO BY LUI JUNQI
In 2003, Yin Yu Tang, a Chinese home, was deconstructed, transported and reassembled at the Peabody Essex Museum, allowing millions of people to enter this structure which eight generations of the Huang family in China called home. Liz Lerman moderates this discussion with Kronos’s David Harrington, Ronit Eisenbach from the UM School of Architecture and Nancy Berliner, curator of the Yin Yu Tang exhibit. Yin Yu Tang served as the inspiration for the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man’s latest piece and asks us all to consider how the place we come from — our roots, our home — impacts who we are today. GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL
YIN YU TANG: THE ARCHITECTURE AND DAILY LIFE OF A CHINESE HOME Take a virtual tour of the Chinese home that inspired the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man’s new work. Wu Man joins Nancy Berliner, curator of the Yin Yu Tang exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum, to take you on a room-by-room, generation-bygeneration exploration of the architecture and culture reflected in this traditional Chinese home. GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL
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Friday, February 12 . 8PM
KRONOS QUARTET AND WU MAN, PIPA A CHINESE HOME This tour of Kronos Quartet is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Join us for a post-performance Talk Back with the artists.
Kronos Quartet and Wu Man return to the Center with two works that illuminate multiple layers of Chinese culture, ancient and modern. The program will open with Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera, featuring music, text and installation by the composer. In this work of lush visual and aural complexity, Tan Dun creates what he calls “a dialogue between past and future, spirit and nature, based on the shamanistic customs of Chinese peasant culture.” The program’s second half, A Chinese Home, is a multimedia exploration of China’s passage through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Conceived by Wu Man, David Harrington and stage director Chen Shi-Zheng, the work incorporates a vast array of traditional and contemporary Chinese music; archival and modern projected images; and unexpected — and often humorous — elements of staging and design. Inspired by the extraordinary story of Yin Yu Tang, a 300-year-old house from a southeastern Chinese village that was dismantled piece-by-piece at the turn of the millennium and rebuilt in the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts, the work is structured in four parts of approximately ten minutes each: “Return,” “Shanghai,” “The East is Red” and “Made in China.” KAY THEATRE
TICKETS: $42
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