Xu Beihong and Alexander Tcherepnin: Crosscurrents of Music and Art | 10.20.22

Join conductor and scholar Jindong Cai and concert pianist and author Xu Fangfang, the daughter of legendary painter Xu Beihong, as they discuss two early 20th Century visionaries, composer Alexander Tcherepnin and artist Xu Beihong, who both sought throughout their lives to connect East and West through art and music, and simultaneously nurtured generations of artists who did the same.

Cai and Xu will tell stories to illuminate the program of the upcoming concert “Journey to the East,” taking place on October 22 in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, in honor of these two creative minds and their work. The first half of the concert will include the concert version of a rarely performed work, The Nymph and the Farmer, a 35-minute, one-act chamber opera based on an ancient Chinese folk tale by composer Alexander Tcherepnin. As Cai will explain, Tcherepnin taught at the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1930s and nurtured the early generation of Chinese composers, including Jiang Wenye, a composer who in 1964 wrote a piano concerto celebrating Xu Beihong’s work especially for Xu’s daughter Fangfang. The concerto was never performed before it was lost during the Cultural Revolution. However, one movement of the concerto was recently discovered, and will be performed for the first time by Xu Fangfang during “Journey to the East”. Join China Institute and hear the story of this work’s recovery and the meaning behind this piece celebrating the art and creative strength of modern China’s greatest painter.

“Journey to the East” on October 22 is the final program of the 5th annual China Now Music Festival, presented by the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. For more information about the concert, visit https://www.barduschinamusic.org/events/china-now-22-journey-to-the-east.

Learn More: https://www.chinainstitute.org/event/xu-beihong-alexander-tcherepnin-chat-crosscurrents-music-art-early-20th-century-china/

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