The Orchestra Now Performs Three Generations of Composers from China

The eighth annual China Now Music Festival returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center for Music in Motion, offering two exhilarating programs of Contemporary Chinese Music. The opening concert presents The Orchestra Now performing three generations of Chinese composers. These groundbreaking symphonic works demonstrate the momentum of musical development in China through the decades at the turn of the millennium. Featuring Ye Xiaogang’s epic masterpiece The Song of the Earth for orchestra, soprano and baritone, the concert is conducted by festival artistic director Jindong Cai.

Program:
Dai Bo
Invisible Mountain prelude and passacaglia

Yu Mengshi
The Lonely Camel Calf for cello and orchestra
Hai-Ye Ni, cello

Zou Hang
Color of Qingdao
Color of Beijing

Intermission

Ye Xiaogang
The Song of the Earth for soprano, baritone, and orchestra, Op. 47
I. Tale of Sorrowful Song (Li Bai)
II. Banquet at Tao Family’s Pavilion (Li Bai)
III. Imitation of Old Poem: Long Autumn Night (Qian Qi)
IV. Song of Pick Lotus (Li Bai)
V. Feelings upon Awakening from Drunkenness on a Spring Day (Li Bai)
VI. Staying at Teacher’s Mountain Retreat, Awaiting a Friend in Vain (Meng Hao Ran), Farewell (Wang Wei)
Manli Deng, soprano
Yue Wu, baritone

Performers:
The Orchestra Now
Jindong Cai, conductor
Hai-Ye Ni, cello
Manli Deng, soprano
Yue Wu, baritone