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Concert: Music of China Ensemble
The Music of China Ensemble will perform traditional Jiangnan silk and bamboo music
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April 24, 2010 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Chi Li, Director
The Music of China Ensemble will perform traditional Jiangnan silk and bamboo music, an arai from the Kun Opear, and a Chinese folk dance. Jiangnan skil and bamboo music was developed in the Shanghai region and features the erhu as the "silk" stringed instrument and the dizi as its "bamboo" flute.
Part of the Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz put on by the Hammer Museum, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.
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