Enquiries: Kathy 020 8540 2661; 07711 654 663
Please click here if you would like to contact us
http://www.londonjingkunopera.co.uk

Date/Time/Place: Sat 18/10 or Sun 19/10 to be confirmed
Programme: Movement,singing, percussion learning, and dvd viewing

This activity is free to Members.

Enquiries: Hai Li, Membership Officer, lihai9@aol.com

Learn to Perform Chinese Opera - Percussion, Fiddle or Flute

The vibrant forms of Kunqu and Jingju come to London this Autumn in a 10-week course of evening workshops in Chinese Opera percussion and instruments held in SOAS. Percussion is open to anyone with a good sense of rhythm and a liking for loud noise! You will learn all the basic rhythmic patterns on gongs and cymbals, and how to respond to the directions of the drum master (gushi).

Chinese fiddle (erhu) and flute (dizi) are open to students with relevant instrumental experience, ie. bowed or wind instruments of any tradition. You will learn to play arias from the ‘Peony Pavilion’, the Chinese opera performance style, and how to accompany the actors on stage.

The workshops will be led by top performers and teachers of the London Jing Kun Opera Association. They will include introductions to Chinese music, to the art of Chinese opera, and DVD viewing of opera scenes.

Venue: SOAS
Time: 8/10 – 3/12 2008, Wednesdays, 6.00 pm -7.30 pm for percussion,
7.30 pm - 9.00 pm fiddle/flute
Fees: £200 for percussion AND fiddle/flute (£100 for SOAS students), £150/£75 for percussion only

Registration and further details: www.lccaa.co.uk/classes_activities.php ;

3.1 Kunqu Opera excerpts for ‘A Festival of Ancient Chinese Culture’

Date/Time: Sat 27/9, Kunqu performance time: 4.15 pm (For the day’s conference programme, please check the LCCAA website listed below.)
Place: Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
           Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London
Programme: 16-minute excerpts from The Startling Dream and In Pursuit of a Dream, from The Peony Pavilion, with English and Chinese surtitles
Organiser: The London Chinese Culture and Arts Association (LCCAA)

Admission and enquiries:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event43726
http://www.lccaa.co.uk/festival_events.php
Contact: centres@soas.ac.uk or tel: 020 7898 4893/2

3.2 Kunqu Opera excerpts for ‘Music of Dao and Fengshui’

Date/Time: Mon 29/9 Kunqu performance time: 1.00 pm (For the full concert programme, please check LCCAA website listed below.)
Place: Leicester Square Theatre, Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX
Programme: 16-minute excerpts from The Startling Dream and In Pursuit of a Dream, from The Peony Pavilion, with English and Chinese surtitles
Organiser: The London Chinese Culture and Arts Association (LCCAA)

Admission and enquiries: Lu_lu_yang@hotmail.com; 07946 347 133;
                                     www.lccaa.co.uk

Date/Time: Wed 29/10, 6.30 pm – 7.30 pm
Place: Asian Music Centre, 1-2 Bradford Road, off Warple Way, Acton, London W3 7SP (Nearest station: Acton Central on Overground)
Speaker/actor: Kathy Hall
Organiser: Asian Music Centre
Admissions: £3
Booking: info@amc.org.uk, 020 8749 9584
www.amc.org.uk

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22/9/08