Interview: Beijing-Born Composer Zhou Long
As part of our China in New York festival, composer Huang Ruo interviews a different Chinese-born composer who has lived in the United States and become prominent to New York City audiences. Hear these...
View ArticleInterview: Downtown Staple Composer-Performer Du Yun
As part of our China in New York festival, composer Huang Ruo interviews a different Chinese-born composer who has lived in the United States and become prominent to New York City audiences. Hear these...
View ArticleInterview: Composer Lei Liang on Cultural Identity
As part of our China in New York festival, from Monday, January 23 to Friday, January 27 at 12 noon with repeats at 7 pm on Q2 Music, composer Huang Ruo interviews a different Chinese-born composer who...
View ArticleCalligraffiti: from China to New York
This Thursday, January 26 at 8:30 pm, ET, Q2 Music streams an eclectic set of chamber and vocal works from award-winning Chinese composer Huang Ruo, as recorded live on January 10 at Greenwich...
View ArticleInterview: Ambassador and Visionary Chou Wen-chung
As part of our China in New York festival, from Monday, January 23 to Friday, January 27 at 12 noon with repeats at 7 pm on Q2 Music, composer Huang Ruo interviews a different Chinese-born composer who...
View ArticleInterview: Musical Polymath Min Xiao-fen
As part of our China in New York festival, from Monday, January 23 to Friday, January 27 at 12 noon with repeats at 7 pm on Q2 Music, composer Huang Ruo interviews a different Chinese-born composer who...
View ArticleWritten on the Wind: Huang Ruo and Min Xiao-fen
Watch the Archived Video BelowOn Jan. 27 at 7 pm in The Greene Space, composer Huang Ruo joins WQXR host David Garland for "Written on the Wind" -- an evening of conversation and premiere performances...
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The Sun Yat-Sen Also Rises
“It’s hard to portray a good person,” said composer Huang Ruo last night in a pre-performance talk at the Asia Society. The Don Giovannis, Scarpias, Hagens and Mephistopheleses of the opera world...
View ArticleAdding to the Year of the A Cappella Group with C4's 'Uncaged'
For many (admittedly myself included), 2013 is the year that "contemporary a cappella group" no longer meant clean-shaven, hopelessly romantic boys wearing white gloves and singing Billy Joel. It meant...
View ArticleThe Chinese Show
This week the Brothers Balliett take a look at two exciting composers who have at least one thing in common – they both hail from China. Each of these composers achieves a remarkable synthesis of...
View ArticleWatch: Video of Lincoln Center's 'Paradise Interrupted'
From Verdi’s Nabucco to Saint-Saëns’s Samson and Delilah, operas have found inspiration in the Bible. A Chinese opera also inspired by the ancient parables, Paradise Interrupted, will have its New York...
View ArticleReview: 'Paradise Interrupted' Fuses Eastern Manners with Western Narrative
At traditional Chinese opera, you settle in for an extended duration, submit to being in the time zone of a distant dynasty and accept that something significant is happening when you can't grasp the...
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