The Silken Phoenix, a chamber music theater work featuring
actress Fiona Choi and the Core Ensemble with cello, piano and percussion, will
perform on Monday, April 19, at 7:30pm
in Memorial Chapel.
The Silken Phoenix is a chamber music theatre work for
actress and trio (cello, piano and percussion). It celebrates the life, times
and works of three of Asia¹s greatest women poets: Ho Xuan Huong of Vietnam,
Izumi Shkibu of Japan
and Li Qingzhao of China.
All emerge as strong, independent personalities and vibrant writers, with a
direct and immediate appeal to audiences. The text, written by Shanghai native
Wang Ping, contradicts the stereotype of passive and demure Asian womanhood,
using comedy, narrative drama and evocative poetry wed to a wide ranging
collection of chamber and solo music of composers Kui Dong, Melissa Hui, P.Q.
Phan, Chinary Ung, Somei Satoh, Keiko Abe, Bun-Ching Lam, Lei Liang, Tan Dun
and Chou Wen-Chung.
The concert is sponsored by East Asian Studies, the
Department of Performing Arts, and the Katharine Van Meter Sadock Lecture Fund
for Women.
For more contact Prof. Jennifer
Matsue, matsuej@union.edu.