Friday March 20, 2009, 8pm
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
43A West 13th Street, New York , New York 10011
Tickets: $25 and $20 for students.
Tickets may be purchased on-line at brownpapertickets.com, or by calling 1-800-838-3006
Members of SONOS Chamber Orchestra join James Nyoraku Schlefer, composer and Shakuhachi master, and virtuoso pipa player, Min Xiao-Fen.
PROGRAM
James Cuddeford (b. 1975)
Impermanence, in memory of Karlheinz Stockhausen for Shakuhachi and string quartet
James Nyoraku Schlefer (b. 1956)
Quintet for Shakuhachi and string quartet
-intermission-
Tan Dun (b. 1957)
Ghost Opera for string quartet and pipa, with water, stone, paper and metal
Erik E. Ochsner, conductor
James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi
Min Xiao-Fen, pipa
Members of SONOS Chamber Orchestra:
Gabriel Schaff, violin
Anna Starkey, violin
Junah Chung, viola
Eliot Bailen, cello
Christen Methot, lighting designer
George Cowan, sound designer
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