Chinese New Year Celebration: Through Sacred China to Xanadu and Spring Melodies
VIEW EVENT DETAILSThrough Sacred China to Xanadu, 6:30 pm
Through Sacred China to Xanadu explores what the term "sacred" means there today. What do Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism and their visual embodiments in terms of sites and monuments convey to today's generation? How do overseas Chinese, travelers, tourists, and locals react to these symbols? How does reality coexist with myth and imagined space? Ravi Bhoothalingam will explore these themes by presenting visual extracts from journeys to Buddhist and Confucian sites, holy mountains, and Taoist temples, culminating with a visit to Coleridge's fabled Xanadu.
Ravi Bhoothalingam is Founder and Chairman of Manas Advisory, a consultancy practice focusing on leadership training, top management coaching and India-China partnership. He serves on a variety of boards throughout India. In his earlier corporate career he was President of The Oberoi Group of Hotels. Bhoothalingam has traversed China, including its outlying regions, Mongolia, and Central Asia. He is involved with the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Forum and has chaired the Tourism and Heritage Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He serves as an international moderator for the leadership training programmes of the Aspen Institute. He has a B.Sc Hons in Physics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, an M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge and an AMP from Harvard. He speaks basic Mandarin.
Spring Melodies, 7:45 pm
Spring Melodies is a collection of works played on the guqin, the classical Chinese zither. All the selected works originate from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). These pieces evoke the spirit of spring, including the fragrances, rituals, and mythologies associated with the season. To further the authentic experience, John Thompson plays the guqin of classical form, intact with silk threads rather than the modern steel ones.
After earning a college degree in Western musicology and graduate studies in ethnomusicology, John Thompson began in 1974 to study the modern guqin tradition from Sun Y??-Ch'in in Taiwan. In Hong Kong he consulted with Tong Kin-Woon and turned his focus to early repertoire. While based there, he was artistic consultant to the Festival of Asian Arts and performed throughout East Asia. He has published seven CDs of his musical reconstructions as well as four books of music transcription. Since moving to New York in 2001, and then Mumbai in 2009, he has continued to perform, teach, research and lecture on the guqin, creating new music as well. Thompson can be heard playing the guqin on his website, www.silkqin.com.
Through Sacred China to Xanadu explores what the term "sacred" means there today. What do Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism and their visual embodiments in terms of sites and monuments convey to today's generation? How do overseas Chinese, travelers, tourists, and locals react to these symbols? How does reality coexist with myth and imagined space? Ravi Bhoothalingam will explore these themes by presenting visual extracts from journeys to Buddhist and Confucian sites, holy mountains, and Taoist temples, culminating with a visit to Coleridge's fabled Xanadu.
Ravi Bhoothalingam is Founder and Chairman of Manas Advisory, a consultancy practice focusing on leadership training, top management coaching and India-China partnership. He serves on a variety of boards throughout India. In his earlier corporate career he was President of The Oberoi Group of Hotels. Bhoothalingam has traversed China, including its outlying regions, Mongolia, and Central Asia. He is involved with the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Forum and has chaired the Tourism and Heritage Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He serves as an international moderator for the leadership training programmes of the Aspen Institute. He has a B.Sc Hons in Physics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, an M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge and an AMP from Harvard. He speaks basic Mandarin.
Spring Melodies, 7:45 pm
Spring Melodies is a collection of works played on the guqin, the classical Chinese zither. All the selected works originate from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). These pieces evoke the spirit of spring, including the fragrances, rituals, and mythologies associated with the season. To further the authentic experience, John Thompson plays the guqin of classical form, intact with silk threads rather than the modern steel ones.
After earning a college degree in Western musicology and graduate studies in ethnomusicology, John Thompson began in 1974 to study the modern guqin tradition from Sun Y??-Ch'in in Taiwan. In Hong Kong he consulted with Tong Kin-Woon and turned his focus to early repertoire. While based there, he was artistic consultant to the Festival of Asian Arts and performed throughout East Asia. He has published seven CDs of his musical reconstructions as well as four books of music transcription. Since moving to New York in 2001, and then Mumbai in 2009, he has continued to perform, teach, research and lecture on the guqin, creating new music as well. Thompson can be heard playing the guqin on his website, www.silkqin.com.
Event Details
Sat 20 Feb 2010
Jnanapravaha, 3rd Floor, Queens Mansion, G. Talwatkar Marg, Fort (Next to Cathedral and John Connon Middle School) Mumbai
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