This video features jaw harpist and calabash flutist Wang Li playing the calabash flute, an ancient Chinese instrument. Tonight, at 8pm, as part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, Wang Li comes to The Allen Room with a solo performance full of meditative melodies.
Wang Li plays the jaw harp, an ancient Chinese instrument, in this video. A master of both the jaw harp and calabash flute, Wang Li will be performing at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival on October 25, 2012, at 8pm in The Allen Room. Don’t miss this unique performance!
JUST RELEASED: White Light Festival 2012 has been announced!
Highlights of the festival, which runs from October 18 to November 18, include:
- U.S. premiere of Rian, performed by Ireland’s Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
- Virtuoso Wang Li plays jaw harps and calabash flute
- N.Y. premiere of choreographer Akram Khan’s Vertical Road
- Cameron Carpenter plays Bach on the Alice Tully Hall organ
- Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, arranged for chamber orchestra, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, and performed by pianist Emanuel Ax, members of the New York Philharmonic, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford and tenor Russell Thomas
- Cosmic Pulses, all–Stockhausen program, performed by percussionist Stuart Gerber and sound projectionist Joe Drew
- U.S. debut of the Latvian Radio Choir
- Mary Chapin Carpenter sings from her new album, Ashes and Roses
- Heiner Goebbels’ music/theater work I went to the house but did not enter featuring the Hilliard Ensemble
- Esa-Pekka Salonen leads Philharmonia Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 9
(Read the entire press release here.)
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