Yaji records in year 2021

 In February 2021, Peiyou Chang has been elected as the president of New York Qin Society. 

All the yaji records please visit New York Qin Society official website

3/27/2021 Multicultural Music and Literature Yaji

Time 2pm - 4pm EST

Location: Zoom

Program (Click the names to see videos)

Before the yaji started, there is a little chitchat 

1, Grace Cho - Qin playing, Innocent Seagull 鷗鷺忘機

2,

Esmeralda Herrero

- Koto Playing, Rokudan part 1 (Postpone to the final one)

3,

Ralph Knag

- The charango that he repaired and two Quena flutes

4, Joao Oliveira - qin playing, Parting at the Yangguan Gate 陽關三疊

5, Sebastian Pfeifer - Harp playing: An Dro, Die Elfe und der Frosch, En Avant Blonde and/or Joggen im Winter.

6, Yves Seban - Poetry reading: Portrait of a Lady by T.S. ELIOT, and Slow Lament at the Tall Pavilion by Jiang Kui and translated by

Yves Seban

(and comments by Marilyn)

7,

Renjie Song

/Peiyou Chang/ Hongmei Zhang - Slow lament of the tall pavilion 長亭怨慢 (melody and lyrics from Song dynasty poet, Jiang Kui; guqin rearranged by Yuan Jung Ping) with Hongmei's singing , Renjie's Tang Xiao flute and Peiyou's Guqin playing 古琴/唐口簫/女聲

8,

Jing Xia

with husband Bin Hu- Guzheng with Classical Guitar duet of Debussy: Golliwogg's Cakewalk (1913)

Unfortunately, the zoom recording collapsed around 1.5 hours of the yaji, so we don't have recording of Esmie's Koto playing, and Jing and Bin's fantastic duet. We hope to see their performance again next time.

For reference links:

1, Xia Jing and Bin Hu's Duo Chinoiserie

2, Text of Portrait of a Lady by T.S. ELIOT

3, Yves translations of Slow Lament at the Tall Pavilion

4, Bach on the guqin

5, Debussy plays Debussy: Golliwogg's Cakewalk (1913)

6, Guzheng Kimio Eto [衛藤公雄] - Rokudan [六段 (Six Steps)]

7, Harp pieces Sebastian played:

1) An Dro - Bretagne - a Circle-dance from the Bretagne in France (Harpa Mundi vol. 1)

2) Die Elfe und der Frosch - by Christoph Pampuch (Harpa Mundi vol. 1)

3) En Avant Blonde - from France (Harpa Mundi vol. 1) (The Youtube-version He mentioned in the Yaji from the Band "Omnia" can be found here: En Avant Blonde)

4) Joggen im Winter - by Christoph Pampuch (Harpa Mundi vol. 8)

New York Qin Society 12/19/2020 Guqin Yaji

 New York Qin Society 12/19/2020 Guqin Yaji

Saturday 8 pm Eastern Time

To watch the live stream video.

First International Multicultural Music and Literature Yaji of 2021, on January 3rd

1, Daniel Juarez from San Diego -  Guqin Playing, Xian Ong Cao 仙翁操 

2, Grace Cho from New Jersey - Guqin Playing, Song of a Pleasant Night  良宵引

3, João Oliveira from Portugal - Guqin Playing, Ode to the Autumn Wind  秋風詞

4, Esmeralda Herrero from Ireland - Koto Playing, Hanami Kosode (Flowery Kimono)

5, Peiyou Chang from upstate New York - Guillaume de Machaut's Douce Dame Jolie (Sweet Lovely Lady) on the qin for fingering exercise and the introduction of two Chinese love songs.

Poetry recitation by Yves from the big apple (in French) and Andy from London (in English).

For my notes and the images of slides, please visit my qin study Journal.

6, Ralph from New Jersey, talked about The mbira (thumb piano). Slides

7, Sebastian Pfeifer from Austria - Harp playing of Brian Boru's March and his harp

* Sebastian sent me some photos and two sound recordings before the yaji, If you are interested, you can listen them here. 

8, Xia Jing from Arizona - Guzheng solo piece 雪山春曉 Spring of the Snow Mountain

9,  Yves' Singing of the Moroccan song 'Lama Bada' and conversation. 

Thank you everyone for bringing such a joyful few hours at the first weekend of the new year. 

This meeting started at 2 pm and finished at 4:25 pm EST.

Hope to see you again in March.