Jan 17, 2023 Prof. Yang Yuanzheng’s book launched – “Chinese Music in Print”.
Nov 2022, Silk String Stringing demonstration by Master Sou Sitai 蘇思棣, provided by 新亞研究所文教頻道:
#1 Stringing: https://youtu.be/kmKRgJmqEEI
#2 Making Rongdou: https://youtu.be/kkRJdyXjavw
#3 Fixing old/broken string: https://youtu.be/iHaDXiyVs98
11/21/2022 New York Qin Society officer Matthew Flannery 方爾義 launched his website http://www.mzflannery.com/
The site has two principal sections:1. 250+ translations of Chinese poems from the period 200-1200. The 120-page Introduction focuses on issues in translating, including aspects of translating from a non-Roman alphabet language.
2. Translations of most of the poems of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914), whose poetry and personality are among the oddest in poetic history. Introduction, 80 pages.
The site has links to other locations, including one to a notice of Matthew’s A Chronological Order for the Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti (Mellen, 2004).
紐約琴社資深會員方爾義先生推出了他的專屬網站, 其中有250 多篇 200-1200 年間的中國詩歌翻譯。 120 頁的導言側重於翻譯中的問題,包括從非羅馬字母語言翻譯的各個方面。以及奧地利詩人格奧爾格特拉克爾(1887-1914 年)大部分詩歌的翻譯。還有方爾義先生所撰寫的多梅尼科·斯卡拉蒂鍵盤奏鳴曲編年順序。
September 7, 2022 Jim Binkley Playing, teaching, constructing the Chinese ‘guqin’ in Woodstock
日本著名古琴家、學者坂田進一先生,不幸因病于2022年6月24日在日本館林與世長辭,享年76歲。坂田進一先生對[東皋琴譜]及[玉堂琴譜]的復興研究有著極大的影響力.
Mr. Sakata Shinichi, Japanese qin master and scholar, passed away in Tatebayashi, Japan on June 24, 2022, at the age of 76. Mr. Sakata Shinichi had a great influence on the revival research of [Donggao Qin Pu] and [Yutang Qin Pu].
蘇州著名古琴家 大風堂琴社社長 吳門琴社創始人之一 葉名珮先生於2022年2月11日晚間與世長辭 享年93歲 Obituary: Guqin master Mrs. Ye Mingpei (1929-2022), the president of Dafengtang Qin Society and one of the founders of Wumen Qin Society, passed away on the evening of February 11, 2022 in Suzho China, at the age of 93.
農圃清音:古琴線上音樂會(2021) Musica in Villam: Online Guqin Concert 2021 in Hong Kong, with English Subtitle
Prof. Wu Zhao talked about the proof of that the Jiu Xiao Huan Pei 九霄环佩 in Beijing National Museum is not a Tang dynasty qin but Song dynasty. And the 日本法隆寺藏琴 in Japan is a Tang dynasty qin. 吳釗老師《關於唐琴鑑定的幾點思考》
[幽居有伴] 在大都會博物館重新愛上中國山水畫 Looking Close at the Fragile Beauty of Chinese Painting, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (English/Chinese)
Interview with Swedish sinologist Cecilia Lindqvist 林西莉 (4 June 1932 – 27 September 2021) about the guqin 古琴 (ancient Chinese zither)
Provenience of Qin Tuning Keys in China, ca. 400 -100 BCE by Bo Lawergren (www.academia.edu)
In October 2020, Freer and Sackler Gallery in Washington DC published [Dragon’s Roar: Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections], by Yang Yuanzheng 楊元錚 (Author). One can find it on The University of Chicago Press or Amazon or Barnes & Noble
7/12, 2021 – 7/28, 2021 Chinese music on line course, MUSIC OF CHINA AND ITS VITAL PLACE IN CHINESE CULTURE, PROFESSOR MINGMEI YIP at Bard College
4/7 -6/20/2021 Calligraphy Exhibition of three generations — 清道人, 胡小石, 張龍延 at Taipei Qin Hall
4/8 – 4/10/2021 Buddhism, Music, and Society, AN ONLINE CONFERENCE AND CONCERT SERIES at US-CHINA Music Institute Bard College Conservatory of Music
Silk string qin playing by Mr. Muka Fushimi with beautiful singing by Miss Wang Tianyi 鳳求凰 “A Male Phoenix Seeks his Mate”『西麓堂琴統』
4/9/2021 The KVVAK Van Gulik 2-day event
Scrolling qin manual video, 秋風词 Autumn Wind Lyrics – 王吉儒 Wang Jiru (c.1956), created by James Chang 張建德, an American conductor and musician of Chinese descent lives in Chicago.
10/10/2020 “Tracing the history and ancient charm of a qin once owned by Rulan Chao Pian.” Presented by Prof. Tse Chun-yan with qin playing by Tse Chun-yan, John Yiu and others 隱世絲桐:追尋卞趙如蘭藏琴的歷史與古韻 from CUHK library
12/21/2020 Online Opening Ceremony of Exhibition Robert van Gulik and Chinese Culture and Video Tour | Robert Van Gulik Chinese Culture 高羅佩與中國文化
11/28/2020 YouTube video of Guqin Concert 農圃雅集—古琴線上音樂會2020 presented from New Asia Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies 新亞研究所
11/22/2020 YouTube video of Shuishan Yu: Etudes and the Fingering Logic and Musical Thinking of Guqin 于水山練習曲與古琴的指法邏輯和音樂思維 (講座)
11/7/2020 YouTube video of POETIC MELODY FROM HANGZHOU 杭州詩韵 presented by Lead Musician: He-Yi 何怡, Vocal & Guqin (Chinese Zither)
8/19/2020 YouTube video of Look & Listen: Bell Yung 榮鴻曾, qin, with Keith Wilson presented by Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art
2/7/2020 YouTube video of China Institute Music Chat- Guqin Master Dai Xiaolian 戴曉蓮於紐約華美協進社談古琴
7/26/2019 The centennial celebration for Suzhou’s Yi Yuan Qin Hui, Garden of Pleasance Qin Gathering, 100 years anniversary 蘇州怡園琴會一百周年, focusing on Wu Zhaoji (吳兆基, 1908-1997) of the Wu school of qin playing