On Sunday, December 10 at 7:30 PM in Lang Concert Hall, the Chinese Music Ensemble will perform its debut concert as an official Swarthmore College ensemble. The group had previously been part of the Fetter Chamber Music program, performing only in the Fetter concerts each semester. Now, the group has sixteen members, with students performing on traditional Chinese instruments including the guzheng (zither), erhu (bowed fiddle), pipa (plucked lute), yangqin (hammered dulcimer), dizi (flute), and percussion.<\/p>\n
Directed by Professor Lei Ouyang Bryant and Performance Associate Wang Guowei, the ensemble performs traditional and contemporary music from different regions of China and the Chinese Diaspora. Professor Bryant, who joined the Department of Music and Dance this fall, plays erhu in the ensemble, which she studied along with guzheng in Taiwan, China, and the U.S. Wang, an internationally touring erhu soloist and composer, has directed Chinese ensembles at Wesleyan University, Williams College, NYU, and the Westminster Choir College. He also arranged the versions of the folk songs that the ensemble will be performing in this concert. The program includes Cantonese folk song \u201cRiding in the Countryside,\u201d a medley of three folk songs, Ding Guoshun\u2019s \u201cSpring of Happiness,\u201d Fan Shange and Geshanjida\u2019s \u201cSpring in the Snow-capped Mountains,\u201d Taiwanese folk song \u201cCatching Mud Carp,\u201d Hunan folk song \u201cChestnut Flower,\u201d and Jian Guangyi and Wang Zhiwei\u2019s \u201cNew Song of the Herdsman.\u201d The concert will feature soloists Annie Tingfang Wang, Henry Han \u201820, and Josephine Hung \u201819.<\/p>\n
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