8/16/2020 Multicultural Music and Literature Yaji

1, Maya - Introduce her newly published book "Ordinary yet Extraordinary"

Her view of her life journey from the Big Apple to the top of a mountain in Ecuador...  

You can check out her website for her book, and a newly published video:
Maya on the Mountain - Living the way of Tao

2, Sebastian - Harp playing 

Sebastian is from Vienna Austria. He just started learning the harp couple months ago. Thanks him to take this opportunity to play small melodies for us.  

3, John - Guqin playing, Jieshi Diao Yolan 碣石調幽蘭 

To read more about Jone's study of Yolan, please check out his website.

4, Esmie from Ireland - Recite some excerpts of Calderon de la Barca theater plays. 

5, Jing from England - Poetry recitation of 彈琴 (playing qin) by 劉長卿 (Liu Changqing) with simple qin improvisation. 

You can check out Jing's website for her artworks. 

6, Susan and Stephen - voice and guitar of Stephen's composition.

7, Andrea from London  - Recitation of the Mountain Spirit 山鬼 composed by Qu Yuan (340 BCE - 278 BCE) in English

To read the lyrics 

8, Peiyou - Qin playing of Shen Ren Chang 神人暢 (Harmony between Human and Spirit) alternate with the recitation of Mountain Spirit in Chinese

You can also watch Peiyou's recording on Youtube

9, Jenny - Ikebana freestyle with glass container

10, Alan - Q&A about houseplants and gardening. 

11, Free chat for the last 25 minutes 

We are very happy to see Bo and Tomoko from NYC. Yves also from NYC joined almost at the last minute, :) and his showing up made the conversation more lively. Big thanks to Ralph co-hosting this yaji, and to Marilyn from DC, gave many good advise. We also have few listeners, João Oliveira from Portuguese, and my old friend Hongmei from NJ.  Thank you all for your participation. 

The next meeting focusing on the Guqin will be on Sunday Sep 13th 2pm EST.