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Chou Wen-chung Centennial Concert

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 7:30PM
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
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This centennial event celebrates the life of pioneering composer Chou Wen-chung: the first Chinese-born American composer to achieve international acclaim. His unique style – subtly expressive and yet always ‘of the moment’ – brought together Chinese traditional music and Western modernism in a reciprocal symbiosis.

Chou taught for decades at Columbia University, heading its composition program. His Center for US-China Arts Exchange brought young Chinese composers to the United States for graduate study in the 1980s, in the febrile times that followed Mao’s death.

A short, informal conversation between Chou's sons and musical associates will follow the intermission.

Sponsored by Spiralis Music Trust in cooperation with Columbia University Department of Music.

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  • This event has ended

This centennial event celebrates the life of pioneering composer Chou Wen-chung: the first Chinese-born American composer to achieve international acclaim. His unique style – subtly expressive and yet always ‘of the moment’ – brought together Chinese traditional music and Western modernism in a reciprocal symbiosis.

Chou taught for decades at Columbia University, heading its composition program. His Center for US-China Arts Exchange brought young Chinese composers to the United States for graduate study in the 1980s, in the febrile times that followed Mao’s death.

A short, informal conversation between Chou's sons and musical associates will follow the intermission.

Sponsored by Spiralis Music Trust in cooperation with Columbia University Department of Music.

Repertoire

  • Chou Wen-chung In the Mode of Shang for chamber orchestra (1956) American premiere
  • Chou Wen-chung

    The Willows are New

     (1957)
  • Chou Wen-chung Yü Ko (1965)
  • Chou Wen-chung Twilight Colors (2007)
  • Chou Wen-chung Ode to Eternal Pine (2009)

Performers

  • Continuum
  • Joel Sachs conductor

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