Westminster Faculty Recital: Chinese Music, Painting, and Poetry

Location

The Westminster Conservatory Faculty Recital Series will continue with a program entitled Mountain and Water in Music and Ink on Sunday, February 26 at 3 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on the campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton.  Admission is free.

The stunning beauty of the Chinese landscape served to inspire poets, painters and musicians alike. This multi-media presentation brings together three art forms inspired by this landscape: poetry, music, and painting. The performers will be Westminster Conservatory faculty members Fang-Ting Liu, piano; Dezheng Ping, violin and er-hu; Feifei Tang, piano and Timothy Urban, voice, with Shunzhu Wang of the Foreign Language and Literature Program at Rider University.  They will be joined by renowned Taiwanese soprano Li-Chan Chen-Maxham in presenting recited poetry and music against a backdrop of projected images of mountain-water paintings and the landscape that inspired them.

The program will include recitation of poetry by such famous poets as Li Bai, Wang Wei and Su Sher, musical settings of poetry by Tzao Shue Chin and Chang Chi, as well as folk melodies depicting the Mongolian landscape played on er-hu. The backdrop of projected images of the Chinese landscape and mountain-water paintings will feature works by such renowned artists as Wu Zheng  and Huang Gongwang.