The Orient: a Touch of the West and a Dash of the Divine
A new musical fusion was raised in New York, and this is not the sort to catch the ten dollars a club in West Village. The thousands of Chinese immigrants trying to stay afloat in a new world, and the Westerners, who have always wanted to understand the Chinese, but jumped away from lack of means – for anyone who did not know where to connect the two civilizations, the answer is no fall but the music.
Lisa Li of the pipe master (Chinese lute) and a graduate of the Chinese Conservatory of China. He composed and performed throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, and game was included in the Oscar-winning film The Last Emperor. Well, one of the leading composers of New Tang Dynasty Television Chinese New Year spectacular, large-scale performance of traditional Chinese singing and dancing, Lisa has created what he believes, that a new sound – based on ancient Chinese folk and church music, but it goes beyond any of them.
‘Music is life, because it believes that the Chinese region of each object in the world lives. Moreover, the Chinese, when we refer to the musical Note: I think this is a ‘living note ” she explains. But Lisa should be, and sometimes played in the heart in such a way that is alien to Western ears and appropriate.
But the tone is far from accidental. Lisa music, like any traditional Chinese music is based on the number of pentatonic (5 note) scales. This system is rooted in Taoism, which teaches that all matter is formed of the five elements of metal, earth, wood, fire and water. It teaches us that for one is healthy, it must have all the elements in balance. So, the Chinese point of view, a song or musical composition shall include an individually designed to balance the elements. There are also eight-note scales that relate to the Taoist symbol of the so-called Bague, the most commonly known in the western part of the practice of fengshui or geomancy.
One example is the play written by the dance ‘A Dunhuang Dream.’ Dance of the target of a backdrop of thousands of caves carved into the rock side, whereas those in the Dunhuang caves Moago region of China. Sitting at the mouth of any cave or Buddhist Taoist deity. As the dancers appear, you can hear the voices of the orchestra pit of the Erhu (Chinese violin) and guzhen (zither), but they will soon join the more recognizable resonant cello, double bass, oboe, and brass. The result of the strike the ear as firmly achingly otherworldly, yet familiar.
In fact, the concrete used yue ya score the same as that of the old pipe music written in the scrolls were discovered by archaeologists in the Dunhuang caves effective years ago.
‘I feel very strongly that music is a heavenly language, the divine language,’ says Lisa. ‘It can take people’s hearts and minds. This is good for the soul.
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