Performance: Song of the Earth

Performance: The Song of the Earth
Date: Friday, March 16, 2007
Time: 8:00 P.M. (Prelude at 7:00 P.M.)
Where: Kay Theatre of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland/College Park (directions)

Tickets: $30; students $7. Clarice Smith Center box office, call 301.405.ARTS, or to order online click here

Description: Experience what happens when cultural boundaries are crossed by intrepid creative spirits. Gustav Mahler's sublime "Der Abschied" (The Farewell) from The Song of the Earth in the context of the traditional Chinese music and poetry that inspired it. The program includes the premiere of a commissioned work by the master Chinese-American composer Zhou Long.

Guests:
DELORES ZIEGLER: mezzo-soprano
MIN XIAO-FEN: pipa
WANG GUOWEI: erhu
SHI HON GALDIN: actress

Performers:
The Post-Classical Ensemble
Angel Gil-Ordonez, musical director
Joseph Horowitz, artistic director



PROGRAM:

• 7:00 P.M.
  • Prelude with Zhou Long, Min Xiao-fen, Wang Guowei, Angel Gil-Ordóñez, and Joseph Horowitz (host)
• 8:00 P.M.
  • Traditional Chinese music, with Min Xiao-Fen (pipa) and Wang Guowei (erhu)
  • Poetry by Meng Hao-Ran and Wang Wei, with Shi hong Aldin, reader
  • Zhou Long: "The Farewell" (after Wang Wei, Meng Haoran) (2007)
    Premiere performance (Clarice Smith Center commission)
  • Gustav Mahler: "Der Abschied" from Das Lied von der Erde (1909)
    (as arranged for chamber orchestra for Arnold Schoenberg's Society for Private Musical Performances)
  • Post-concert discussion

(The program has no intermission)