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Guqin Music – The Dancing Crane and Homage-paying Geese

Presented by Shuishan Yu, Fourth Generation Mei'an School Guqin Player Event Date: November 18, 2017 Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA The graceful fingerings that produce the beautiful melodies of guqin music had been praised as resembling the dancing crane and homage-paying geese in ancient manuals. Indeed, there were many pieces with the Chinese characters for “crane” (he) or “geese” (yan, hong) in their titles. This recital will feature some of the most remarkable pieces from the traditional repertoires. Most of them had been passed on from antiquity and reinterpreted and reinterpreted over generations. For instance, the famous “Flowing Waters” was credited to the Spring and Autumns Period (771-476 BCE) qin master Boya, while the most popular version of the piece today is largely based on the celebrated scores published in 1876 by Zhang Kongshan. Traditional guqin music is not a composition, but an eternal process of accumulation and a timeless effort of perfection. This recital is one such effort.