Movies on the Radio: Evoking China, Part Two

Movies on the Radio

Evoking China, Part Two

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

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Li Gong in 'Raise the Red Lantern' (DVD release)

China in New York

WQXR's China in New York festival explores how Chinese artists are influencing the world of classical music and fusing age-old traditions with a potent sense of discovery.
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Concluding WQXR's China in New York festival, David Garland offers more film music that brings together East and West, blending Chinese and Western instruments and traditions in colorful, exciting ways.

Included are highlights from Qigang Chen's score for the current "The Flowers Of War," Zhao Jiping's Peking Opera-inspired music for "Raise the Red Lantern," plus stirring music from a peculiar Hollywood artifact: the 1944 film "Dragon Seed," which starred a non-Asian cast--including Katherine Hepburn--in Asian roles. The fine music is by Herbert Stothart, and his score was recorded in stereo, making an unusually vivid experience of film music from that era.

Watch the trailer for "Dragon Seed":

Evoking China: Part I

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robin from Greenwich Village

Beautiful. There is such grace and simplicity in the acting with weight like a traditional noh play and masks like an ancient greek story. The meeting of East and West, a treatise from 1946, by the professor of Philosophy from Yale, F.S.C Northrop brought to the fore a world understanding and Global art philosophy. Much like Martha Grahams dances, this video shows where she ends and where then Erik Hawkins brought it to the next level making pure performance. what great historical significance this film is.

Jan. 28 2012 06:24 AM

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