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ModernWorks
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Wednesday July 8, 2009 (9pm)
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$15
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Tuesday 07.08.09
ModernWorks performs The Music of Ge Gan-Ru
9pm doors | 9:30pm show
$15
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a First-Come, Fully Seated event.
ModernWorks is
Madeleine Shapiro, cello/director
Airi Yoshioka, Violin
Mayuki Fukuhara, Violin
Veronica Salas, viola
Program:
1) Yi Feng for solo amplified cello
2) String Quartet No. 1 (Fu)
3) String quartet No. 5 (The Fall of Baghdad)
I. Abyss
Screaming
Living Hell
Barbaric March
Abyss
Threnody
II. Music from Heaven
Pilgrimage
Bazaar
Caliph's Drum
Music from Heaven
III. Desolation
Desolation
Weeping
Moaning
Keening
Ge Gan-Ru was born in Shanghai in 1954, where he studied the violin as a child. In 1974, he was admitted to the Shanghai Conservatory as a violin student; but in 1977, inspired by his recent creative experiences, he switched to composition, studying with Cheng Gong. Upon his graduation in 1981 Ge was named assistant professor of composition at the Conservatory.
In 1983, Ge started working on his String Quartet No. 1—Fu (Prose-Poem). Before completing it, however, he left China as the first of a generation of Chinese composers brought to New York City by Chou Wen Chung at Columbia University. At first he had to support himself as a restaurant deliveryman, but he managed to complete Fu, which was picked up within a year by the Kronos Quartet. By the time he received his doctorate from Columbia in 1991, he was supporting himself as a composer, and he continues to live in the New York area as of this writing.
In addition to "Fall of Baghdad", Ge's orchestral CD "Chinese Rhapsody" (BIS SACD-1509) and chamber CD "Lost Style" (New Albion NA-134) have won worldwide critical acclaims. His 2010 CD releases include another album of his orchestral works by BIS Records. Yi Feng ("Lost Style") played tonight was also recorded by Madeleine Shapiro on "Electricity" by Albany Records.
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