{"id":51690,"date":"2015-03-08T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=51690"},"modified":"2015-03-08T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T17:00:02","slug":"momenta-quartet-tan-dun-ghost-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=51690","title":{"rendered":"Momenta Quartet: TAN DUN GHOST OPERA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>03\/08\/2015 2pm<br \/>\nFlushing Town Hall<br \/>\n137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY 11354<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hqdefault.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[51690]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTickets: $15\/$10 Members &amp; Students<br \/>\nThe Momenta Quartet returns to Flushing Town Hall for this dramatic and theatrical performance, joined by virtuoso pipa player Zhou Yi and an award-winning composer and violinist Jason Kao Hwang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn extraordinary musical experience.\u201d (Washington Post)<br \/>\n\u201cDiligence, curiosity and excellence.\u201d (New York Times)<\/p>\n<p>This program is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.<br \/>\n(photo by John Gurrin and video from the Ear Heart Music production in June 2014)<\/p>\n<p>Momenta Quartet: TAN DUN GHOST OPERA &#8211; Tan Dun\u2019s Ghost Opera (1994) is a five-movement work for string quartet and pipa, with water, metal, stone and paper. Inspired by childhood memories of the shamanistic \u201cghost operas\u201d of Chinese peasant culture, it calls on the spirits of Bach, Shakespeare, ancient folk tradition, and earth\/nature.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flushingtownhall.org\/event\/af5bca78ded9ccce6ea7338bcd2a0955\/Momenta-Quartet-TAN-DUN-GHOST-OPERA\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.flushingtownhall.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/08\/2015 2pm Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY 11354<\/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-51690","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\/51690","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=51690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51694,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51690\/revisions\/51694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}