Porgy und Bess
Part of the international conference "Globalization and Cultural Difference
in Contemporary Music", Vienna, 12.-14.12.2003
The Chinese Mouth Organ and its Others
Huang Lung-Yi (Taipei), sheng
Gene Coleman (Philadelphia), bass clarinet
Chao-Ming Tung (Köln), zheng, electronics
Eva Furrer (Wien), flute
Dimitri Polisoidis (Wien), viola
Bernhard Lang (Wien), electronics
Jin Diao
for 17-piped traditional sheng
Gene Coleman
Setting for bass clarinet, sheng, flute and viola
Miaozu huange
for 8-piped hulu-sheng
Sandeep Bhagwati
Illusies van harder en zacht for viola and sheng,
premiere
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Improvisation for Sheng
Tung Chao-Ming
Lied des verlorenen Landes II for zheng and flute
Chen Xiaoyong
Du Bai for sheng solo
Bernhard Lang
dw 13b for sheng, viola, flute and live-electronics,
premiere
The 7th concert of the AsianCultureLink concert series cross//roads at Porgy&Bess
Vienna will introduce different possibilities and approaches of an intercultural
dialogue between Chinese and Western instruments. Musicians from Klangforum
Wien will meet with Huang Lung-Yi, the sheng (mouth organ)-player of China
Found Music Workshop Taipei in notated and improvised music from composers
with different cultural backgrounds.