Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet: A Night in Ancient and New China

Friday, April 1, 2016 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

$22 general admission; $20 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff/alumni, non-Wesleyan students; $6 Wesleyan students

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Click here to download a pdf of the program from this concert.

Pre-concert talk by Associate Professor of Music and East Asian Studies Su Zheng at 7:15pm.

"Wu Man is one of the rare musicians who has changed the history of the instrument she plays."
—Boston Globe

The Shanghai Quartet—violinists Weigang Li and Yi-Wen Jiang, violist Honggang Li, and cellist Nicholas Tzavaras—returns to Wesleyan for their Connecticut debut with pipa (Chinese lute) virtuosa Wu Man to perform “A Night in Ancient and New China,” featuring Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11, Op. 95; traditional folk songs; and the Connecticut premiere of the new quintet "Red Lantern" by eminent Chinese film composer Zhao Jiping (Raise the Red Lantern, To Live, and Farewell My Concubine) in collaboration with his son Zhao Lin.

A Crowell Concert Series event presented by the Music Department and the Center for the Arts. Co-sponsored by the College of East Asian Studies.