Venue: Jane Mallet Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts
Presenter: Luminato Festival
Kronos Quartet and Wu Man
A Chinese Home
Terry Riley / Selections from The Cusp of Magic * Canadian premiere
I. The Cusp of Magic • III. The Nursery • IV. Royal Wedding
Philip Glass (arr. Michael Riesman) / Orion: China + World premiere of arrangement
Rahul Dev Burman (arr. Stephen Prutsman/Kronos) / Mehbooba Mehbooba (Beloved, O Beloved) + Canadian premiere
Tan Dun / Excerpt from Ghost Opera *
INTERMISSION
A Chinese Home 中国之家 Canadian premiere
Conceived by Wu Man 吴蛮, David Harrington and Chen Shi-Zheng 陳士爭
Part I. Return 回归
Part II. Shanghai 上海
Part III. The East Is Red 东方红
Part IV. Made in China 中国制造
Played without pause
Chen Shi-Zheng, director and visual designer
Laurence Neff, lighting and scenic designer
Scott Fraser, sound designer
Camilla French, video photography
flora&faunavisions, video editing
Laurence Xu, costume designer
Lisa Iacucci, assistant director
Calvin Ll. Jones, associate sound designer
A Chinese Home was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man by Carnegie Hall and the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. The work was co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland at College Park, with funds from The Leading College and University Presenters Program of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Florida State University’s Seven Days of Opening Nights; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Stanford Lively Arts, Stanford University. Additional support was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Venue: Toorak Uniting Church
Presenter: Melbourne International Arts Festival
Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre
Presenter: Melbourne International Arts Festival
Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre
Presenter: Melbourne International Arts Festival
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