{"id":2152,"date":"2013-11-01T10:36:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T10:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2013-10-31T04:43:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T04:43:18","slug":"explorations-in-sound-wu-man-talks-about-the-pipa-concerto-of-zhao-jiping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2152","title":{"rendered":"Explorations in Sound &#8211; Wu Man talks about the Pipa Concerto of Zhao Jiping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net\/hprofile-ak-prn1\/c0.13.104.104\/s100x100\/40530_155084614505271_7742910_s.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>This month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/features\/?fid=186&amp;fyear=2013\" target=\"_blank\">Musical America&#8217;s 2013 <strong>Instrumentalist of the Year<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wu_Man\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wu Man<\/strong><\/a> <a title=\"wiktionary:?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E5%90%B4\">?<\/a><a title=\"wiktionary:?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E8%9B%AE\">?<\/a>&#8211; gives the <strong>world premiere performances of a new pipa concerto by Chinese composer Zhao Jiping<\/strong>, accompanied by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Wu Man talks about the new composition and demonstrates the exotic sounds of the pipa.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OtjTzrzscvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Audiences have heard her perform concertos by <strong>Lou Harrison<\/strong> and <strong>Tan Dun<\/strong>, both of which she has recorded (the Harrison twice).<br \/>\nNew-music fans run into her regularly as a frequent collaborator with the <strong>Kronos Quartet,<\/strong> as a soloist at the annual Bang on a Can marathons, and as a member of chamber groups and orchestras giving the premieres of scores by <strong>Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Chen Yi,<\/strong>\u00a0 and <strong>Bright Sheng<\/strong>, who have written pipa parts into their works, with her sound and dexterity in mind. When Glass\u2019s friends invited his favorite musicians to perform at an invitation-only concert at New York\u2019s Le Poisson Rouge to celebrate the composer\u2019s 75th birthday, in January 2012, Wu Man was among the players on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>And I played a couple of concerts with her in the 80s &#8211; she was a wonderful player then, with a broad musical knowledge and inquisitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, Musical America&#8217;s 2013 Instrumentalist of the Year &#8211; Wu Man ??&#8211; gives the world premiere performances of a new pipa concerto by Chinese composer Zhao Jiping, accompanied by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House. In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,572],"tags":[584,585,582,583],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}