Abstract
Three City Dash festival will present six composes, three cities, six ensembles, three NYC venues.
The ensemble Music From China will present Pu Songling's Bizarre Tales by Yu-Hui Chang, who has written primarily for Western instruments in the past, and now is experimenting more fully with Chinese instruments.
This piece takes inspirations from Liao Zhai Zhi Yi, a collection of Chinese ghost stories written by Pu Songling of Qing Dynasty, Five stories are chosen from the book as the themes for each of the five short movements. They are:
I. Introduction – The Daughter from the House of Mei 梅女
II. Stealing a Peach 偷桃
III. The White Peony 香玉 (attacca)
IV. Interlude – The Snake Charmer 蛇人 (attacca)
V. The Accuser 席方平