{"id":1475,"date":"2015-03-25T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T03:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2019-08-28T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:58:27","slug":"chinese-music-virtuosi-in-honolulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/chinese-music-virtuosi-in-honolulu\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Music Virtuosi in Honolulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Just recently the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UH Music Composition program<\/a>, in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastwestcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East-West Center<\/a>, hosted the Chinese Music Virtuosi. CMV is a group from Hong Kong made up of 6 instruments: sheng (mouth organ), erhu (fiddle), yangqin (hammered zither), pipa (lute), dizi (flute) and guzheng (plucked zither). Four of the ensemble&#8217;s members made the trip to Honolulu, joining local musicians Frederick Lau and Yi-Chieh Lai on stage for the various events.<\/p>\n<p>The week-long residency was filled with events for UH composition students as well as educational events for children around the community. More information about the visit can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/music\/chinese-music-virtuosi-residency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I conducted the group in the premiere of three pieces, one by Ng King Pan, another by Takuma Itoh and <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/works\/madly-singing-in-the-mountains\/\">one of my own<\/a>. (Hawaii composer Donald Reid Womack also had a trio on the concert that didn&#8217;t require conductor.) First rehearsals are always the same for me. I write music I envision sounding perfect on the instruments and then inevitably discover that not everything sounds the way I&#8217;d hoped. I imagine it&#8217;s this way for all composers. But this is even more common when writing for non-Western instruments, and each piece I write for Asian instruments tends to go through a few generations before it&#8217;s finalized. The CMV musicians were very accommodating of all the changes I made in rehearsals, and it turned out to be a great concert of new and traditional music.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some photos from the visit.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_gallery el_id=&#8221;gallery-885216&#8243; medias=&#8221;1479,1478,1476,1481,1480&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; screen_lg=&#8221;1000&#8243; screen_md=&#8221;600&#8243; screen_sm=&#8221;480&#8243; single_overlay_opacity=&#8221;50&#8243; single_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; single_border=&#8221;yes&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Just recently the UH Music Composition program, in partnership with the East-West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81975,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/81975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}