US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music
Asian American Voices: American Stories, American Music
A Symphonic Concert Online
October 19, 2021
US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music
October 19, 2021
The fourth annual China Now Music Festival concludes online with a selection of pieces from the Festival’s live concerts, presented to the worldwide public for free. The Del Sol Quartet and China Now Festival Chorus perform a preview of excerpts from Huang Ruo’s Angel Island: oratorio for voices and string quartet. The Orchestra Now performs selected episodes from An American Soldier, with tenor Li Yi, mezzo-soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen, soprano Helen Zhibing Huang, and live narration by librettist David Henry Hwang. The event concludes with two symphonic pieces by Peng-Peng Gong and Xinyan Li that further express the themes of Asian American experiences and reflections on this moment in history.