{"id":51562,"date":"2015-03-19T08:37:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=51562"},"modified":"2015-03-02T06:04:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T10:04:27","slug":"wu-tong-song-of-the-sheng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=51562","title":{"rendered":"Wu Tong: Song of the Sheng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>03\/19\/2015 8:00pm &#8211; 9:30pm<br \/>\nAsian Society<br \/>\n725 Park Avenue, New York, NY<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/resized-for-web_10.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[51562]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/resized-for-web_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nhis performance will be preceded at 7:00 pm by a pre-performance lecture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWu wields [the sheng] on stage like a harmonica on steroids.\u201d \u2014 Financial Times<\/p>\n<p>Take the sheng \u2014 a Chinese mouth-blown free reed consisting of vertical pipes \u2014 an instrument with the tone color and harmonic possibilities of a pipe organ and the immediacy of a saxophone. Then put it the hands of a world-savvy player who knows no musical bounds. Wu Tong, charter member of the Silk Road Ensemble and founding front man for the Beijing-based rock band Lunhui, offers a broad sampling of his music sensibilities, from traditional tunes to new compositions and free improvisation.<\/p>\n<p>With Simon C.F. Yu, guitar; Shane Shanahan, percussion; Neena Deb-Sen, cello; and featuring the U.S. premiereof Clifford Ross&#8217;s &#8220;Harmonium Mountain II&#8221; video.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/wu-tong\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/wu-tong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/19\/2015 8:00pm &#8211; 9:30pm Asian Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51600,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51562\/revisions\/51600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}