The KCBX Arts Beat is made possible by a grant from the Shanbrom Family Foundation.Two stringed Chinese instrument Crossword Clue New York Times. How lucky for us that playing pipa is her day job. Whether performing ancient Chinese music, an opera, or a contemporary duet she wrote herself, Man said she’s excited to be with fellow musicians at the Ojai Festival. So my father actually gave me the foundation to become a musician, become an artist.
“When I listen to music, I also see paintings. I see lots of things–exactly like music,” Man said. I see the structure I see the color I see the dynamic I see the timing I see the definition. If I look in any art piece, I see music there. “My father gave me the sense of what is beauty, what is art. An artist himself, he also teaches traditional Chinese painting on rice paper. "It can be very hard to make a living as an artist,” Man said.c“But I think for me, the challenge is how can I introduce the pipa, this Chinese ancient instrument with a very long history - fascinating history - and that still survives today? How can I introduce to more people live this earth and to be able to let pipa live another century, not disappear?”Īfter the Ojai Music Festival, Man will travel back to China to see her 88-year-old father. She joked that when you say you’re a musician, people always want to know what your day job is. Man has been performing for more than 30 years, but she said there are challenges. That moment you concentrate 100 percent, not just on music, your mind, your body, your finger, your muscle, everything,” Man said. “If I play the solo concert an hour and a half, afterwards, I’m just dead. During a performance, you have to think about the music, understand what’s next and grasp the flow of the piece. Man said it takes a long time to learn your instrument, your sound, and to get comfortable on stage. “I wrote especially for us a Chinese folk song… It’s called ‘Raining Day.’” “I just love her artistry and love her creative side,” Man said. When they finally got together to practice in person, Man decided to write a piece for them to play together. Man and Giddens met over Silkroad's Zoom meetings during Covid. Wu Man performs with the Silk Road Ensemble at the Mondavi Center in Davis, CA Sometimes I play pipa and audience will come in to say, ‘Wow sounds like a banjo.’ So sometimes I joke, ‘Oh, this is Chinese banjo,'” Man said.
“We always thought that banjo and the pipa very, very close somehow they're related. Wu Man said her pipa and Giddens’ banjo pair perfectly together. Giddens is also the artistic director for the Ojai Festival this year. Both musicians are part of Silkroad Ensemble, an eclectic group of musicians founded by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Man is also performing with Grammy award-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens, who will play banjo. We have a stage setting, and each musician has to play different instruments,” Man said. It's not only like a string quartet and pipa quintet piece, but also very theatrical. “It’s a wonderful, wonderful piece - we’ll offer the best piece from the composer. It's a work by Tan Dun, which the composer wrote in part to feature Man's pipa playing. In addition to these early pipa tunes, Man will be part of the festival’s main performance, Ghost Opera. Because that time in Tang Dynasty, China basically welcomed everyone, so a lot of culture mixed, including the pipa, came from Central Asia!” Man said. “Somehow, between Central Asia and China and Europe, a combination mixed. She said they're in a totally different tuning and mode than what we now think of as modern Chinese music. Man will be performing a few of those ancient pipa songs at the Ojai Music Festival this year. “I'm doing a recording project: I want to play those 25 tunes.” “So the original, those 25 pipa tunes, right now they’re in Paris, in a museum,” said Wu Man, who began practicing the pipa as a child. Among that treasure were 25 pieces of music written for a traditional Chinese instrument known as the pipa.
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There’s a series of caves in Dunhuang, a Chinese city on the edge of the Gobi Desert. She's performing at the Ojai Music Festival this weekend, bringing both ancient Chinese folk songs and modern East-West fusion to the performance. Wu Man, a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble, is a virtuoso of the traditional Chinese string instrument, the pipa.
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