- Music From China
collaborated and performed with the Vineyard Theatre in their production
of the family musical "Beautiful Warrior" based on the award-winning
children's story by Emily Arnold McCully, with libretto by Barbara
Zinn Krieger and music by Jin Xiang. Ten sold-out performances were
presented at Queens Theatre in the Park and Kingsborough Community
College, serving over 5,000 school children and adults.
- Music From China collaborated
and performed with the Vineyard Theatre in their production of the
family musical "Beautiful Warrior" based on the award-winning
children's story by Emily Arnold McCully, with libretto by Barbara
Zinn Krieger and music by Jin Xiang. Ten sold-out performances were
presented at Queens Theatre in the Park and Kingsborough Community
College, serving over 5,000 school children and adults.
- A successful tour
to Missouri and Kansas in mid-America in January 2001 included concerts
at the UMKC Conservatory (Kansas City, MO), Nelson-Atkins Museum of
Art (MO), Spencer Museum at the University of Kansas, and Washburn
University (KS).
- Award for Outstanding
Music Radio Program at the 2001 Shanghai Spring International Music
Festival. The radio broadcast entitled "Chinese Instruments in
the Hands of American Composers" produced by Music From China
in conjunction with Wesleyan University calls attention to the increasing
attraction of Chinese instruments for Western composers and the creation
of a body of cross-cultural music taking place today.
- MFC appeared with
Four Nations Ensemble at the Boston Early Music Festival in June,
2001. The unique and highly praised "Fleur-de-Lis / Plum Blossoms"
concert was performed before a sold-out audience in the marvelous
acoustical setting of the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.
- MFC was among some
of the best world music groups that performed in the Smithsonian Folklife
Festival in June 2001. This year's theme was the folk life and culture
of New York City representing the many ethnic communities that make
up this great melting pot.
- Jason Kao Hwang's
Meet The Composer New Residencies partnership with Asia Society, Music
From China, and Museum of Chinese in the Americas culminated in the
production of the chamber opera The Floating: A Story in Chinatown
which premiered at the Asia Society with 6 nearly sold-out performances
in Fall 2001. The opera featured three singers with soprano, mezzo-soprano,
baritone, and a mixed orchestra with erhu, pipa, flute, b. clarinet,
cello, accordion, vibraphone, and percussion. It brought together
musical influences as diverse as jazz, blues, rock, samba, Gregorian
chants, and Chinese music.
- World premiere of
Kui Dong's Singing, the Moon Reels. Dancing, the Shadows Stir
at Premiere Works XI, Nov. 17, 2001. Major funding was provided by
the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Instrumentation for this composition,
which was inspired by Tang poet Li Bai, consisted of erhu, zheng,
dizi, cello, b. clarinet, and percussion.
- MFC was awarded a
Meet The Composer 2001 Commissioning Music/USA double grant for composers
Paul Rudy and James Mobberley. Both compositions were given world
premieres at Premiere Works XI in New York City. Paul Rudy's electroacoustic
work Wood, Winter, Water, Earth utilized erhu, yangqin, dizi,
and tape. James Mobberley's nine-movement work Souvenirs was scored
for erhu, dizi, zheng, pipa and percussion.
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