Monday, March 07   09:15 PM to 10:45 PM
Dodge Hall, Room 620
WEAI – Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street 9th Floor, New York, NY 10027

Join the WEAI Lecture series: Music from the 1960s Black Liberation Movement to the 1980s Asian American Movement.

This event will feature Jon Jang, a Composer and Pianist, who was and still is, an active member of the Asian American jazz movement. Composer Jon Jang became the first American born Chinese to compose a symphonic work that honors Chinese American history. For three decades, composer and pianist Jon Jang gives a musical voice to a history that has been silent. A majority of his works represents a chronology of Chinese American history in San Francisco. Commissioned by the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra and Oakland East Bay Symphony, Jon Jang composed The Chinese American Symphony (2007) which pays tribute to the Chinese laborers who built the first transcontinental railroad in United States.

Other works include: Oyama Canon in D (2013); Portrait of Sun Yat-sen (2011), When Sorrow Turns to Joy – Songlines: The Spiritual Tributary of Paul Robeson and Mei Lanfang (2000), Reparations Now! Concerto for Jazz Ensemble and Taiko (1988), Island: the Immigrant Suite No. 2 (1995) for the Kronos Quartet and Cantonese Opera singer and the score for the dramatic adaptation of Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (1994) commissioned by the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre in Boston and Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles (Mark Taper).

Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Center for Ethnomusicology, and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program

Free admission! http://weai.columbia.edu