Le regard du silence - 2014 TIFA 台灣國際藝術節 Taiwan International Festival of Arts

Trois saisons LE REGARD DU SILENCE

World Premiere
Nationality

Taiwan/France
When

3/14-15(Fri.-Sat.) 19:30
Where

Recital Hall
Production

Le Théâtre du Soleil
Ticket Price

500

A Graceful Yet Enthralling Contest between Guqin and Cristal Baschet

Enthusiastically Recommended by the Director of Le Théâtre du Soleil of France, A Music Voyage across Time and Space, and the Borders of Nations and Cultures

Featuring Li-Yu You, the Taiwanese guqin soloist currently residing in France, with her performing and descanting, and joined by improvisations on the piano, flute-xiao, and ongcristal baschet, this concert will lead the audiences on an improvisational chanting voyage beyond time, culture, and nationality, which portrays the beauty of guqin’s millenarian heritage and of the ensemble of western instruments. When guqin, an instrument with an extremely long history, conveying the serene resonance made by the strings and wood, encounters the new-era sound brought out from the cristal baschet, an invention of two intellectual French artists Francois and Bernard Baschet in 1952, the audiences will be ready to set off on their voyage through time and space. The climax of this concert will introduce Thierry Pecou’s highly anticipated new composition Le regard du silence for the guqin, piano, cristal baschet, and flute-xiao.

Program

3/14(Fri.) Programme

A crow craws in the night, Guqin solo
The sound of flowers, Vocals and Guqin with Flute accompaniment
Communion with the gods (variation), Guqin and Cristal Baschet
The extremes meet, guqin, Piano, and Cristal Baschet
The drinker’s release variation, Guqin and percussion
Behold the garden of wisdom
The unknown island
The look of silence

3/15(Sat.) Programme

Adios at Yangguan, Vocals and Guqin with Flute accompaniment
The solitary orchide (in Jieshi mode), Guqin solo
King wen’s melody, Guqin and Cristal Baschet
The extremes meet, guqin, Piano, and Cristal Baschet
The drinker’s release variation, Guqin and percussion
Behold the garden of wisdom
The unknown island
The look of silence

Artists

Li-Yu You, the Taiwanese guqin soloist currently residing in France, will collaborate with the French Crystal Baschet soloist Catherine Brisset, French composer Thierry Pécou, French arranger, director, and percussionist Christian Dupont, and the flute-xiao soloist Yin-Chung Huang to create a cross-national work blending traditional and contemporary music forms. Li-Yu You was hailed by Ariane Mnouchkine, Director of Le Théâtre du Soleil of France, as “her profound and sophisticated music language, Ms. You passes down the living water of the legacy of guqin culture resolutely, while strolling leisurely among the diverse unification of poetic music and theatre and dance and contemporary music.”