BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;East Asia Program pr esents \;Composer Chen Yi and the Cultural RevolutionTrauma\, dislocat ion\, loss\, severed plans\, and backbreaking\nmanual labor were only some of the devastating results of the Cultural\nRevolution for Chinese Americ an composer Chen Yi (b. 1953). However\, the\nCultural Revolution also fos tered major musical influences on her compositions\,\nespecially revolutio nary tunes sometimes adapted from folk music or rural songs\nand a variety of traits derived from Beijing Opera via the Model Works\nchampioned by M adame Mao. Evaluation and interpretation of these borrowings and markers\n of Chinese culture vary among scholars. What cultural meanings emerge from her\nparticular fusion of Chinese and Western musical elements? Chen’s re trospective\nassessment of her experience during the Cultural Revolutionar y is noteworthy\nfor her focus on the positive benefits of her “down-to-th e-countryside”\nexperiences: Frankly\, it was not until then that I found my roots\, my\nmotherland\, and really appreciated the simple people on th e earth and the\nimportance of education and civilization. I learned to ov ercome hardship\, to\nbear anger\, fear and humiliation under the politica l pressure\, to get close to\nuneducated farmers on a personal and spiritu al level\, and to share my feelings\nand thinking with them\, to learn to hope\, to forgive\, to survive\, and to live\noptimistically\, strongly an d independently\, and to work hard in order to\nbenefit more human beings in society.This event is part of\nBringing East Asia to the SU Classroom S eries.J. Michele Edwards\n\nProfessor Emerita of Music\, Macalester Colleg eJ. Michele Edwards\, musicologist and conductor\, is\nprofessor emerita o f music\, Macalester College\, and holds a doctorate from the\nUniversity of Iowa. Her conducting ranges from musical theater to professional\norche stras and included several large choral-orchestral positions. Frequently\n commissioning and conducting premieres\, Edwards is committed to programmi ng\ncompositions by women. An active scholar\, Edwards contributed over 20 articles\nabout women musicians to the Grove Dictionary of American Music and a\nsimilar number about Japanese and American musicians to New Grove Dictionary.\nRecent publications include “The World of Women and Beyond: M abel Daniels and\nher Choral Music” in Choral Journal and “Women on the Po dium” in Cambridge\nCompanion to Conducting. Recent presentation topics in clude Chen Yi\, Tania\nLeón\, Japanese/Asian music\, and Fluxus. In 2020 s he and coauthor Leta Miller\npublished a book about Chen Yi and her music with the University of Illinois\nPress. Edwards served on the editorial bo ard for ACDA’s The Choral\nJournal (2000–17) and is an active member of th e AMS.Click here to registerFor more information or to request additional accommodation arrangements\, please contact Havva Karakas Keles\, hkarakas @syr.edu. \; DTEND:20211028T205000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T183801Z DTSTART:20211028T193000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Composer Chen Yi and the Cultural Revolution UID:RFCALITEM639141070814274621 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

East Asia Program presents \;


Composer Chen Yi and the Cultural Revolution

Trauma\, dislocation\, loss\, se vered plans\, and backbreaking\nmanual labor were only some of the devasta ting results of the Cultural\nRevolution for Chinese American composer Che n Yi (b. 1953). However\, the\nCultural Revolution also fostered major mus ical influences on her compositions\,\nespecially revolutionary tunes some times adapted from folk music or rural songs\nand a variety of traits deri ved from Beijing Opera via the Model Works\nchampioned by Madame Mao. Eval uation and interpretation of these borrowings and markers\nof Chinese cult ure vary among scholars. What cultural meanings emerge from her\nparticula r fusion of Chinese and Western musical elements? Chen’s retrospective\nas sessment of her experience during the Cultural Revolutionary is noteworthy \nfor her focus on the positive benefits of her “down-to-the-countryside”\ nexperiences: Frankly\, it was not until then that I found my roots\, my\n motherland\, and really appreciated the simple people on the earth and the \nimportance of education and civilization. I learned to overcome hardship \, to\nbear anger\, fear and humiliation under the political pressure\, to get close to\nuneducated farmers on a personal and spiritual level\, and to share my feelings\nand thinking with them\, to learn to hope\, to forgi ve\, to survive\, and to live\noptimistically\, strongly and independently \, and to work hard in order to\nbenefit more human beings in society.


This event is part of\nBringing East Asia to the SU Classroo m Series.


J. Michele Edwards

\n\n

P rofessor Emerita of Music\, Macalester College


J. Mich ele Edwards\, musicologist and conductor\, is\nprofessor emerita of mu sic\, Macalester College\, and holds a doctorate from the\nUniversity of I owa. Her conducting ranges from musical theater to professional\norchestra s and included several large choral-orchestral positions. Frequently\ncomm issioning and conducting premieres\, Edwards is committed to programming\n compositions by women. An active scholar\, Edwards contributed over 20 art icles\nabout women musicians to the Grove Dictionary of American Music< /i> and a\nsimilar number about Japanese and American musicians to New Grove Dictionary.\nRecent publications include “The World of Women and Beyond: Mabel Daniels and\nher Choral Music” in Choral Journal and “Women on the Podium” in Cambridge\nCompanion to Conducting. Recen t presentation topics include Chen Yi\, Tania\nLeón\, Japanese/Asian music \, and Fluxus. In 2020 she and coauthor Leta Miller\npublished a book abou t Chen Yi and her music with the University of Illinois\nPress. Edw ards served on the editorial board for ACDA’s The Choral\nJournal ( 2000–17) and is an active member of the AMS.


Click here to register


For more information or to request additional accommodation arrangements\, please contact Havva Karakas Keles\, hkarakas@syr.edu.&nbs p\;

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