Tuesday, January 05, 2021

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.