03/01/2013
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
Award winning composer and storyteller, Angel Lam, tells a new story with her original music and visual projections. Through recent visits to China she discovered a forgotten diary that chronicles an adventurous journey and a culture now lost to time.
In a merciless land, a young man saves the fate of a girl who died three days before…Based on a true story, an untold secret from 1920’s China comes alive through a new presentation in the Chinese tea house style of storytelling.
The performance also includes visual artist Catherine Lan’s relief paintings inspired by “Ghost Wife” ’s late Qing architectural ornaments of the elegant Sai Kwan mansion in Old Guangzhou.
Angel Lam’s compositions are praised as “otherworldly, dreamily poetic” (New York Times) and “precious…soaring lyrical lines” (Metropolitan Opera News). She is a three-time Carnegie Hall commission recipient and her works are performed by Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble worldwide. She was voted “Artist of the Month” by Musical America and “Yalie of the Week” by Yale Alumni Magazine.
Friday, March 1 ~ 6:30–8 PM
At the China Institute in America, 125 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10065
$15 member / $20 non-member
To register, please visit www.chinainstitute.org/art-culture/programs-events/performing-arts
or call 212-744-8181 x111.