On Saturday 9/18/2021 NYQS hosted a zoom Yaji: Antique Qin & Celebrate Full Moon
紐約琴社枯木龍吟慶中秋線上雅集
First Hour (9:00 – 10:00 am) 美東時間早上九點, 台北晚上九點
Program (Some titles are clickable and will link to videos or papers)
部分標題可點擊收看影音或報告
2, Founding President, Jung Ping Yuan – talked about and demonstrated on his 4 antique qins: Xuě yè zhōng shēng, “Snowy Night Bells Sound,” made by Zhang Shunxiu during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty; Bīng Qìng, “Frosty Chime,” early Song Dynasty or earlier; Qianlong Nameless Qin; Republic of China Nameless Qin.
This talk was in Chinese. Many thanks to Juni who did most of the instant English translation in the yaji chat room, one can check out the chat room record (from 9:17 to 10:05).
本社創設會長袁中平先生談到他所收藏的四床古董琴, 雪夜鍾聲(明萬曆年間張順修所斲), 冰磬 (宋早期或更早), 乾隆無名琴, 民國無名琴, 感謝楊雪亭用英文在會議的討論室即時重點翻譯. 袁先生隨後用冰磬琴演奏了[平沙落雁]
Second Hour (10:00 – 11:00 am)
4, Follow by discussion of Dr. Yang Yuan Zheng’s book Dragon’s Roar: Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections.
討倫楊元錚著作:華盛頓佛瑞爾美術館藏宋琴-枯木龍吟
Watch the part 1, Marilyn’s introduction and Bo’s talk 第一部份妙蓮的介紹與勞鎛的談話
Part 2 please read from Peiyou’s Slides 第二部份請閱讀培幼的圖文片
Due to personal reasons, Dr. Yang will not be able to participate in this event, therefore we will postpone his talk to a future yaji. In the mean time, Marilyn Wong Gleysteen will introduce this book, then Peiyou Chang will brief discuss the Chapter 2 and 3 (with slides) that Dr. Yang presents in the book. Chapter 2 is about the 11 surviving qin from the Warring States period to the Western Han dynasty. Chapter 3 is about the Song dynasty qin, “Withered Wood, Dragon’s Roar” of Freer Gallery.
楊元錚教授因私人因素不克參與原定的線上討論, 其討論將會延後至未來雅集, 因此本會議將由王妙蓮介紹本書, 張培幼接著以圖文摘要說明本書第二張, 關於十一張戰國至西漢出土琴、以及第三章關於現藏於美國華盛頓弗瑞爾美術館的宋琴[枯木龍吟].
https://youtu.be/cQWK3v-mP7o (Look & Listen: Asian Art and Music, Bell Yung, qin, with Keith Wilson) 請點擊視屏連結觀看榮鴻曾教授演奏古琴以及華盛頓佛瑞爾美術館藏琴枯木龍吟的介紹 (從14:45分鐘有四分鐘介紹)
In the video link above, from 14:45 there is the 4 minutes introduction of the early Song dynasty qin Dragon’s Roar 枯木龍吟 in the Freer and Sackler Collections, and Dr. Yang Yuan Zheng’s book Dragon’s Roar: Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections.
Freer and Sackler’s website of Dragon’s Roar 佛瑞爾美術館枯木龍吟官網
Third Hour (11:00 am – noon) Guqin Playing 古琴演奏
5, John Thompson 唐世璋 – 秋月照茅亭 Qiuyue Zhao Maoting, “Autumn Moon Shining on a Reed Pavilion”
6, Juni L Yeung 楊雪亭 – 秋宵步月 Qiuxiao Buyue, “Strolling under the Autumn Moon in the Evening”
7, Stephen Dydo 戴德 – 秋塞吟 Qiu Sai Yin, ” Autumn Frontier Intonation”
8, Peiyou Chang 張培幼 – 洞庭秋思 Dongting Qiusi, “Autumn Thoughts at Dongting”
9, Esmeralda Herrero 關山月 Guān Shān Yuè, “Moon Over Guan Mountain”
10, Alan Yip 葉沛霖- 秋風辭 Qiu Feng Ci, ” Song of Autumn Wind”
Attendance
Ralph Knag, John Thompson, Juni Yeung, Marilyn Wong Gleysteen, Peiyou Chang,
Esmie(Ana Herrero), Joao Oliverira, Stephen Dydo, Yang Fang, Sarah Chen 陳麗如,
Andrea Lioy, Mingmei Yip, Mandy S, Shuengit Chow, Sophia Leharte, Jung Ping Yuan, Laura Z, Lisa Raphals, Que Nguyen, Wang Michael, Bo Lawergren, Bill Mak, Alan Yip, Anthony Fragola, Daniel Jessie, Andrey Danilov 袁安瑞, John Yang 楊介宗, 台北琴道館, and 鄧家齊