
Min Xiao-Fen
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Master of the pipa (Chinese lute), Min Xiao-Fen has famously reinterpreted the music of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis through her instrument. She also improvises and composes her own music for pipa; we hear an original track inspired by poems from the Tang Dynasty. Also, in anticipation of Saturday's Orpheus Chamber Orchestra broadcast from Carnegie Hall, we hear Ravi Shankar's "Swara-Kakali" (Shankar is premiering a new Sitar concerto with the orchestra, featuring his daughter Anushka).
Henry Cowell / Suite for Violin and Piano
Bedrich Smetana / Souvenirs de Boheme en forme de polka, Op. 13
Paul Cooper / Symphony No. 4, "Landscape"
John Ireland / These things shall be
Peteris Vasks / Quartet
David Chesky / Psalm I
Also Featured Tonight:
Andrew McKenna Lee / Scordatura Suite: ArabescataHenry Cowell / Suite for Violin and Piano
Bedrich Smetana / Souvenirs de Boheme en forme de polka, Op. 13
Paul Cooper / Symphony No. 4, "Landscape"
John Ireland / These things shall be
Peteris Vasks / Quartet
David Chesky / Psalm I


