{"id":70853,"date":"2017-07-19T08:13:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T12:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=70853"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:16:34","slug":"jiaju-shen-zong-li-spiral-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=70853","title":{"rendered":"JIAJU SHEN + ZONG LI: SPIRAL MUSIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY, 7.19.17 6:00 &#8211; 9:00 PM<br \/>\nTHE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART<br \/>\n150 West 17th St., New York, NY 10011<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jiaju-Shen-has-taken-her-traditional-pipa-skills-international-playing-everywhere-from-the-Beijing-O.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[70853]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70854\" title=\"JIAJU SHEN + ZONG LI: SPIRAL MUSIC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jiaju-Shen-has-taken-her-traditional-pipa-skills-international-playing-everywhere-from-the-Beijing-O.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jiaju-Shen-has-taken-her-traditional-pipa-skills-international-playing-everywhere-from-the-Beijing-O.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jiaju-Shen-has-taken-her-traditional-pipa-skills-international-playing-everywhere-from-the-Beijing-O-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spiral Music presents acoustic music every Wednesday evening at the base of the Museum\u2019s spiral staircase. Artists who specialize in music from the Himalayas and South Asia are invited to forge a connection between their music and the art in the galleries. Free event.<\/p>\n<p>About the Musicians<\/p>\n<p>Jiaju Shen is an award-winning musician and an expert in traditional Chinese music instrument performance. She is the founder of Gong Music, providing a dynamic platform to promote traditional Chinese music and develop modern elements in folk music to serve a diverse audience. An innovator in pipa revitalization, Jiaju brings elements of contemporary jazz, funk, and reggae to traditional Chinese music. She has performed at the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai EXPO Closing Ceremony, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, United Nations, Metropolitan Museum, and Barclay\u2019s Center.<\/p>\n<p>Zong Li is a composer, electronic music artist, and instrumentalist. He holds master\u2019s degrees from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and New York University. As a composer, he is involved in different music fields including classical, pop, rock, jazz, film scoring, and modern electronic music. His works have been been featured in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, New York Fashion Week, Festival de Cannes, China\u2019s Got Talent, The Voice of China, and Shanghai Expo. As an instrumentalist, Li has played for numerous recording sessions and live performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY, 7.19.17 6:00 &#8211; 9:00 PM THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART 150 West 17th St., New York, NY 10011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70853","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\/70853","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70856,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70853\/revisions\/70856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}