Freer|Sackler Concert Series

Traditional Chinese Music: The Han Tang Ensemble


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Travel to long-ago China in this performance of lively and entrancing music invoking moonlit rivers, plum blossoms, peacocks, an early spring snow, and the stories of famous legends from Ancient China. This outstanding ensemble of musicians — all trained in China— perform on traditional lute (pipa), fiddle (erhu), hammered dulcimer (yangqin), zither (qin), and mouth organ (sheng). This performance was recorded live in concert at the Meyer Auditorium of the Freer Gallery of Art on April 29, 2002.
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Freer|Sackler Concert SeriesBy Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery