Date: Sunday February 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 AM EST
The New York Qin Society celebrated a new year and a new president!
Featuring Artists:
Alan — Short Greetings and Qin piece Meihua San Nong, and an New Year’s Eve erhu piece
Juni — Qin piece Gufeng Cao, Etenraku 越天樂 from Yamagata’s manual, latest transcription work and writing projects
Andre — Qin piece Ao Ai
Ralph — Chinese Shadow Puppets
Peiyou — Yang Chun with video
John — “New Year’s Eve” in the cipai “East Winds Work,” Japanese Handbook 1676 discussion.
Dan — Qin piece, Chunxiao Yin
Shuengit — Software Qin music, “Pale Ink” and “Zebrafish” (2004)
Michael — Wooden xun discussion
-Alan
Program Notes:
The full program is available on YouTube. Links to the various performances appear below in red text or by selecting the pictures.
Alan presented his new president’s remarks. You can read them here or watch them here.
Alan played a day before Chinese New Year piece on erhu
Then he played Meihua San Nong on qin.
Juni made some opening remarks as vice-president and played the Qin piece Gufeng Cao, Etenraku 越天樂 from Yamagata’s manual
She then discussed her research on Etenraku and Japanese modal tunings.
Andre played his recorded Qin piece: Ao Ai
Ralph discussed Chinese Shadow puppets and displayed some he made. His slide presentation is here.
Peiyou gave her vision for the New York Qin Society and then played her Yang Chun video with calligraphy and guqin.
John wanted to play 除夜 Chu Ye (New Year’s Eve) from his web page, but had problems with sharing. Here’s the web page link. Instead there was a discussion about Chinese OCR software.
Dan played his Qin piece, Chunxiao Yin.
Shuengit presented videos of her Software Qin music, “Pale Ink” and “Zebrafish” (2004)
Michael discussed his wooden xuns. Here’s a link to his web page
Here’s the chat from the meeting.
Attendance
Alan Yip, Peiyou Chang, Ralph Knag, Shuengit Chow, Alexander Merick, Andre Ribeiro, Juni Yeung, Lawrence Kaster, Luca Pisano, Mandy Zostek, Marilyn Wong Gleysteen Matthew Flannery, Lisa Raphals, Mark Johnson Tie Liu, Dan Reid, Micael Bretti, Mingmei Yip, Sandra Cai, Jane Huang, Jim Binkley, John Thompson, Yinglei Yang, Andrea Lioy, Chenxiao Gu