{"id":71948,"date":"2018-01-11T08:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T12:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=71948"},"modified":"2018-01-02T02:17:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T06:17:21","slug":"overlord-a-music-theater-work-by-yu-bin-and-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=71948","title":{"rendered":"Overlord: A Music Theater work by Yu Bin and Ensemble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thu 11 Jan 2018 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
\nAsia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021<\/p>\n

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Asia Society and the China Shanghai International Arts Festival (CSIAF) come together again for the annual showcase presenting emerging talent from RAW (Rising Artists Works), a platform developed by CSIAF to present new ideas and bright young artists from across China.<\/p>\n

Overlord, a performance by the Yu Bin Ensemble, is a music-focused, interdisciplinary performance created by the pipa (traditional Chinese 4-stringed lute) player Yu Bin, who will be joined by an ensemble of some of the most talented young musicians in China, playing both Chinese and western instruments.<\/p>\n

Overlord is inspired by two traditional Chinese pipa masterpieces: Ambush on All Sides and King Doffs His Armor. Overlord is based on historical facts, portraying the Chinese warlord Xiang Yu, using music to explore his inner world at different moments in his life. Unlike other film and traditional Chinese opera adaptations, Overlord avoids focusing on the retelling the story, and instead attempts to find the humanity inside this complex figure\u2014who has often been portrayed as a ruthless leader, a notorious killer and a gruesome enemy\u2014and explore the emotional connection he had to humanity as he led the rebel forces into battle against the Qian Dynasty. Yu Bin\u2019s work uses music and theater to portray a nuanced character with a complex inner life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thu 11 Jan 2018 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021<\/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-71948","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\/71948","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=71948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71951,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71948\/revisions\/71951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}