2021 October 17 Yaji

Time: 3pm Eastern Time

Location: On-line Zoom Meet

Program: (click each title to watch videos or sound recording 可點擊標題看影音)

1, Special guests, Miss Yanyan Zhu 朱彥晏 and Mr. Weiping Zou 鄒衛平

Gui Qu Lai Ci 歸去來辭 Guqin and Poetry Singing

Literati landscape painting (文人山水画), background music: Jiang Kui’s An Xiang 姜夔 暗香

Weiping Zou New Vision of Arts (鄒衛平美術新說)

Feng Qiu Huang 鳳求凰 Live Qin playing and Poetry Singing

2, Susannah Miller – Feng Lei Yin 風雷引. Susannah been learning the guqin since January 2021 with Alan Yip

3, Peiyou Chang (qin playing) with Andrea Lioy (recite the titles of each section in English) – Chu Ge 楚歌 from Xi Lu Tang Qin Tong 西麓堂琴統 (1525). Chu Ge, Song of Chu, is based on a history of Xiang Yu’s (the “Hegemon-King of Western Chu”) defeat and downfall from the battle of Gaixia.

Subtitles of Song of Chu 楚歌小標題 (English modified by Mr. Lioy)

1) 憶別江東 — Leaving Jiangdong, with memories of my people

2) 垓下勢窮 — A decisive defeat at the battle of Gaixia

3) 夜聞楚歌 — At night, hearing the song of Chu

4) 起飲帳中 — Getting drunk in the camp

5) 流涕長潸 — Tears flowing

6) 八千兵散 — 8000 soldiers are scattered

7) 泣別虞姬 — Crying goodbye to my only love

8 ) 陰陵失道 — Falling into a trap at Yin Ling

9) 亭長艤舟 — A ferryman moors a boat to the riverbank

10) 烏江不渡 — I will not cross the River Wu

Peiyou and Andrea’s Yaji zoom video recording can be seen here: https://youtu.be/PTWVD4v6yo4

Or listen to a sound recording that Peiyou redo the qin playing for better sound quality http://peiyouqin.com/sounds/Chuge&Ricitation.mp3

Thanks to John Thompson’s silkqin which has a great information about this piece: http://www.silkqin.com/02qnpu/07sqmp/sq61cg.htm

4, Andre Ribeiro – Pinsha Luoyan 平沙落雁

5, Special guest, Jane talked about a family ancestral Ming dynasty qin. Jane is learning the qin with Alan Yip. Then Alan played Yuqiao Wenda 漁樵問答, Chun Si 春思, and Guan Shan Yue 關山月 on this Ming dynasty qin.

7, Free Chat

8, Announcement for Membership

Since the establishment of the NYQS 21 years ago, we have been getting a lot of help from people like you, who join our membership and participate in our events, sharing your knowledge and skills with everyone selflessly. I would like to say thank you very much. 
Due to the start of COVID in the winter of 2019, we postponed our membership fee collection for 2020 and 2021. We will start to collect the membership fee of $25 per year from the year 2022. You can start to pay now by Paypal or personal check. The info will be sent out to you by email. 
If you are not a member and would like to join us. Please contact: info@newyorkqin.com  

Thank you.

Chat Room Record

Attendance

Joao Oliverira, Andrea Lioy, Mingmei Yip, Mandy S, Matthew Flannery, Yuki Leach, Jun Wang, Lawrence Kaster, Veronika Mikusova, Gabriel Levy, Jenny Sun, Kaytlyn Mittag, Ziming Yuan, Li Dan (friend of Helen Shi), Helen Shi and Catherine Li.

Documentation: Peiyou Chang