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Concert: Music of China Ensemble

Chi Li, Director

Saturday, April 24, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA United States

The Music of China Ensemble will perform traditional Jiangnan silk and bamboo music, an arai from the Kun Opear, and a Chinese folk dance. Jiangnan silk and bamboo music was developed in the Shanghai region and features the erhu as the "silk" stringed instrument and the dizi as its "bamboo" flute.

Part of the Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz put on by the Hammer Museum, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.

Sponsor(s): Ethnomusicology, Hammer Museum at UCLA, Herb Alpert School of Music